MEET HENRY R. IRVING

Henry R. Irving is a senior investment associate at RBC Wealth Management in Norwell, where he provides investment advisory services to help clients build and preserve wealth.

From 1991 to 2000, he worked for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) as regional sales director in the New England office of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. Prior to his UNICEF work he was an arts administrator in local theaters including TheaterWorks, Suffolk University Theatre, and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge.

Henry earned his MBA in 1978 from Suffolk University Graduate School of Management. In 1975, he graduated from Boston University with a BA in English.

In the 1990s he was among the many property owners who worked to end rent control in Massachusetts and he remains an active SPOA member. In the summer of 2005, he volunteered for the Fair Districts for Fair Elections campaign to end gerrymandering, sponsored by Common Cause.

His experience and reading of history provide faith in "small r" republican principles: limited government, the rule of law, private property, free markets and free trade.
He is a member of the Advisory Board and Development Committee of The Greek Institute in Cambridge and is a volunteer fundraiser for Groton School in Groton, MA.

Henry Irving is an avid reader of American history and finds time for playing hockey and softball and bird watching.

Henry and his wife Kate have lived on Bigelow Street in Central Square since moving to Cambridge in 1982. Kate is a former conservator of paintings at the Harvard Art Museum. They have one daughter, Alexandra, who is in her second year at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City.

Mr. Irving ran for election to the state legislature in 2006 and now serves as chairman of the Cambridge Republican City Committee.