Henry Hugh Tasker (4 February 1862-1936) was an architect, surveyor and local politician.
Born in Bristol, he was the son of George Richard Tasker, a surveyor, and Emma née Cossins. By 1871 his family were living in Clerkenwell. He became an architect and surveyor and married Elizabeth Gibson in 1889.
By 1901 he was living in Barnsbury.
He held a commission in the Volunteer Force and Territorial Force, and in 1913 retired as a major in the Finsbury Rifles, 11th Battalion London Regiment and was given the honorary rank of lieutenant-colonel.
On the formation of the London Provident Institution Savings Bank in 1914, he was its first chairman.
He sat as a Municipal Reform Party member of the London County Council representing Finsbury, Holborn: he was nominated to fill a wartime vacancy under emergency legislation on 9 November 1914, when his younger brother Robert Inigo Tasker entered active service. When county council elections resumed in 1919 he was returned unopposed to the county council. He served as chairman of the London Fire Brigade Committee. He stood down at the 1922 council election and his brother returned to take his county council seat.
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