From 1955 to 1957 he was secretary of the 1922 Committee. He was appointed a Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Supply in 1956, becoming a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office in 1958. He was a member of a House Select Committee that recommended "draconian punishments for practising homosexuals in the armed forces". Resignation In November 1958, Harvey and a 19-year-old guardsman, Anthony Walter Plant of the Coldstream Guards, were found in the bushes in St James's Park and arrested; Harvey tried to escape, and attempted to give a false name on arrest. Both were charged with gross indecency and breach of the park regulations; when tried on 10 December, the indecency charge was dropped and both were fined £5. Harvey paid Plant's fine as well as his own. Harvey subsequently resigned his ministerial post and his seat, forcing a by-election early in 1959, in which he was succeeded by Conservative Anthony Courtney. Later career He returned to his earlier public relations work, acting as a director of Colman, Prentis and Varley from 1962 to 1963, and as Advertising Controller of Yardley of London from 1963 to 1964, when he became that company's Advertising Director, a position he held until 1966. In 1971 he published his memoir To Fall Like Lucifer. From 1972 onwards he was the Vice-President of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, and from 1980 onwards Chairman of the Conservative Group for Homosexual Equality. He was the Chairman of Paddington Conservative Association from 1980 to 1983, and Westminster North Conservative Association in 1983. He contested the latter seat for the Inner London Education Authority in 1986, and chaired one of the ILEA's boards on tertiary education from 1985 until his death. A friend later recalled his last years: "I remember him, a sad old man living alone and forgotten in a small flat." Publications References External links 1914 births 1987 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford British Army personnel of World War II Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies People educated at Fettes College Gay politicians English LGBT politicians British LGBT rights activists LGBT members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom People associated with Birkbeck, University of London Royal Artillery officers UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs 1955–1959 Members of London County Council Members of Kensington Metropolitan Borough Council Presidents of the Oxford Union Presidents of the Oxford University Conservative Association