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Harry Lamborn

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Harry Lamborn
Member of Parliament
for Peckham (1974–1982)
Southwark (1972–1974)
In office
4 May 1972 – 21 August 1982
Preceded byRay Gunter
Succeeded byHarriet Harman
Member of the Greater London Council
In office
1 April 1965 – 1972
Preceded byOffice established
ConstituencySouthwark
Member of the London County Council
In office
1953 – 1 April 1965
Succeeded byOffice abolished
ConstituencyDulwich
Personal details
Born
Harry George Lamborn

(1915-05-01)1 May 1915
London, England
Died21 August 1982(1982-08-21) (aged 67)
Eastbourne, England
Political partyLabour
Spouse
Lilian Smith
(m. 1938)
Children3

Harry George Lamborn (1 May 1915 – 21 August 1982) was a British Labour Party politician. He was a councillor from 1953, then a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1972 until his death in 1982.

Early political life

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Lamborn was born in Dulwich.[1] He was a member of Camberwell Borough Council from 1953 to 1965, including being mayor in 1963/4. He represented the Dulwich constituency on the London County Council between 1958 and 1965.[1] Lamborn was elected in 1964 to the LCC's successor body, the Greater London Council, for the constituency of Southwark, and was re-elected in 1967 and 1970. He was Deputy Chairman of the GLC from 1971 to 1972.[1]

Member of Parliament

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After Ray Gunter resigned from the House of Commons, Lamborn was elected at a by-election in May 1972 for the constituency of Southwark.[1] After his constituency was eliminated in boundary changes, he ran in the newly configured Peckham and was comfortably re-elected in the February 1974 general election, at which the Labour Party returned to office, albeit without a majority.[1] He was Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, from 1974 to 1979.[1]

At the general election of 1979 the Labour Government was defeated, and a Conservative Party Government was elected under Margaret Thatcher. Lamborn was comfortably re-elected but with a reduced majority.[1] Afterward, he announced he would not contend the next general election on health grounds.[1]

Personal life and death

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Lamborn married Lilian Ruth Smith in 1938, and they had three children.[1] He died at a hospital in Eastbourne on 21 August 1982,[2] and was succeeded as MP for Peckham by Harriet Harman in a by-election later that year.

His name is memorialized in that of Harry Lamborn House, a block of sheltered flats for the elderly built by Southwark Council[3] on Gervase Street, off the Old Kent Road in Peckham.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Mr Harry Lamborn". The Times. 24 August 1982. p. 10. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Labour MP dies after long illness". The Times. 23 August 1982. p. 2. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Harry Lamborn House".
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Southwark
1972Feb 1974
Constituency abolished
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Peckham
Feb 19741982
Succeeded by