Harry Day

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Harry Day (16 September 1880 – 16 September 1939) was a British theatre owner and Labour Party politician.

Born in south London, he was son of David John Day. He had a poor childhood and began working at an early age selling tickets for Barnum & Bailey's travelling circus. He subsequently worked as a bill poster before gaining ownership of theatres in Bristol, Bedford and Dover. He was also briefly Harry Houdini's manager.

In 1901 he married Kathleen Amelia Rea (Kathleen Amelia Day, an actor with the stage name "Kitty Collyer", and they had two children.

Day was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Southwark Central at the 1924 general election, having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1923.[3] He was re-elected in 1929 with a much-increased majority, but when Labour split at the 1931 general election he lost the seat to a Conservative supporter of the National Government.[3]

He was elected to the London County Council as a councillor for Southwark Central in the same year he lost his parliamentary seat.

Day regained his Commons seat at the 1935 general election holding both parliamentary and council seats until his death.

In 1939 he became ill and travelled to Canada for his health. He died on his 59th birthday in Quebec.