Sir Harry Livermore | |
Honorific-Suffix: | Kt. |
Birth Date: | 17 October 1908 |
Office: | Lord Mayor of Liverpool |
Term Start: | 1958 |
Term End: | 1959 |
Predecessor: | Frank Hamilton Cain L.L.D. |
Successor: | Herbert Neville Bewley C.B.E. |
Sir Harry Livermore (1908–1989) was a Liverpool solicitor and local politician who served as Lord Mayor of Liverpool.[1]
Livermore was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne and at the University of Durham. He qualified as a solicitor in 1930 and entered practice in Liverpool. In 1985 he represented many of the defendants in the stadium disaster in Heysel, Belgium.[2] He was a partner in the law firm Silverman Livermore.[3]
He entered Liverpool City Council in 1945 as a labour candidate for Abercromby[4] but lost his seat in 1947.[5] He tried unsuccessfully for Castle Street Ward in 1950 election but gained a seat in his old ward of Abercromby in 1953.[6] He was elected as an Alderman in 1955.[7] He served as Lord Mayor of Liverpool from 1958–59.[8]
He served as Chairman of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society, the Merseyside Arts Association and the Everyman Theatre. He was knighted in 1973 for his services to the arts.[9]