Sir Frederick Frank Arthur Burden (27 December 1905 – 6 July 1987) was a British

United Kingdom

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 Conservative

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 politician.

Early life

Burden was educated at the Sloane School, Chelsea

Chelsea, London

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 and was British schools boxing

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 champion 1921-22. He served with the Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force

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 in World War II

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, first with a Polish

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 unit then with Eastern Air Command, and later on the staff of Lord Louis Mountbatten

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

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 at South East Asia Command

South East Asia Command

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, attaining the rank of Squadron Leader

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He became a company director, including of British Eagle International Airlines.

Politics

Burden contested South Shields

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 as a National Labour candidate in 1935, and as a Conservative stood in Finsbury

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 in 1945 and Rotherhithe

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 in a 1946 by-election

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He was Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Gillingham

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 from 1950 to 1983. He was chairman of the Parliamentary Animal Welfare

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 Group.
By the time of his retirement at the age of 77, he was among one of the oldest sitting MPs. James Couchman

James Couchman

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 was his successor.

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