Lieutenant Colonel Ian Douglas Harvey RA (25 January 1914 – 10 January 1987) was a British businessman and politician, who served as a Conservative Member of Parliament and junior minister until his resignation in 1958. His promising political career ended in disgrace when he was caught having sex with a guardsman in St James's Park. Early life Harvey was born on 25 January 1914, the son of the Major Douglas Harvey and Dorothy Cundall, who were married in 1912. Dorothy was a noted badminton player, winning three doubles titles at the All England Open Badminton Championships. She remarried to Bert Bisgood in 1922 following the death of Major Douglas Harvey, who was killed in Mesopotamia in 1917. Early career Ian Douglas Harvey was educated at Fettes College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association in 1935, and the Oxford Carlton Club and the Oxford Union Society in 1936. He graduated with a BA in 1937. During the Second World War he served in the anti-aircraft arm of the Royal Artillery, becoming the Adjutant of 123 Light Antiaircraft Regiment Royal Artillery in 1940 and the Brigade Major of 33 AA Brigade RA in 1943, before serving on the staff of HQ AA Command in 1944. After studying at the Staff College, Camberley, he became brigade major of 100 AA Brigade in North-West Europe in 1945. After the War he served as lieutenant colonel commanding 566 LAA Regiment RA (City of London Rifles) from 1947 to 1950. He worked in public relations, was a member of the Advertising Association and the Institute of Public Relations, and published Talk of Propaganda (1947) and The Technique of Persuasion (1951). From 1949 to 1956 he was a director of W. S. Crawford, an advertising firm. In 1949, he married Clare Mayhew, daughter of Sir Basil Edward Mayhew, KBE. The couple went on to have two daughters. Political career Harvey first stood as a Conservative Party Parliamentary candidate for the seat of Spelthorne in Middlesex at the 1945 general election, but was defeated. From 1947 to 1952 he held a seat on Kensington Borough Council, and from 1949 to 1952 also represented Kensington South on the London County Council. He was a governor of Birkbeck College. In the 1950 general election he stood for Harrow East, winning the seat and holding it in the 1951 and 1955 general elections.