Harry Cunningham Brodie

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Harry Cunningham Brodie (1875–1956) was a Canadian-British Liberal politician and businessman. He was born in Victoria, British Columbia, the eldest son of John Brodie of Hamsell Manor, Sussex, and was educated at Winchester School. In 1909 he married Mabel Hart, daughter of Sir Robert Hart; they had two sons. Mabel died in 1951.

Brodie was a member of the Liberal Eighty Club. In 1906 he was elected as the Liberal Member of Parliament for the Reigate Division of Surrey, winning the seat from the Conservatives. He served one term and lost the seat back to the Conservatives in January 1910. He did not stand for Parliament again.

He served as a Major in the Middlesex Yeomanry (Duke of Cambridge's Hussars). In World War I he fought in Egypt (1915–16) and France (1917).

Professionally, he was a partner in Findlay, Durham & Brodie, colonial merchants. He was a director of Ohlsson's Cape Breweries Ltd and Ocean Marine Insurance Co. Ltd, and chaired the Delagoa Bay Agency Co. Ltd and the East Africa Engineering & Trading Co. Ltd. He sat on the Council of the London Chamber of Commerce and was Chairman of the South African Section from 1943 to 1950.

Brodie died in Rolvenden, Kent, on 27 February 1956, aged 81. He is buried in Putney Vale Cemetery, southwest London.