Harry George Lamborn British Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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 politician, was born in London and had a background in the British Trade Union

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 movement — specifically his union USDAW, local government and the London Co-operative movement.

Lamborn was a member of Camberwell Borough Council

Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell

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 from 1953 to 1965, including being Mayor

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 in 1963/4. He represented the Dulwich

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 constituency on the London County Council

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 (forerunner of the Greater London Council

Greater London Council

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 (GLC)) between 1958 and 1965. Lamborn was elected to the successor body, the Greater London Council

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 in 1964 for the constituency of Southwark

Southwark

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 and was re-elected in 1967 and 1970. He was Deputy Chairman of the GLC 1971/2.

After Ray Gunter

Ray Gunter

Raymond Jones Gunter , British Labour Party politician, was born in Wales and had a background in the railway industry and the British trade union movement – specifically his union, the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association .After seeing active service in the Second World War, enlisting in the...

 resigned from the House of Commons

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, Harry Lamborn was elected at a by-election in May 1972 for the constituency of Southwark

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. After his constituency was eliminated in boundary changes, he ran in the newly configured Peckham

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 and was comfortably re-elected in the February 1974 general election

United Kingdom general election, February 1974

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 when the Labour Party

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 returned to office, albeit without a majority. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary

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 (PPS) to the Chancellor of the Exchequer

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, Denis Healey

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 from 1974 to 1979.

At the general election of 1979

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, the Labour Government was defeated, and a Conservative Party

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 Government was elected under Margaret Thatcher

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. Lamborn was comfortably re-elected but with a reduced majority. He died in August 1982 and was succeeded in the Peckham constituency by Harriet Harman

Harriet Harman

Harriet Ruth Harman QC is a British Labour Party politician, who is the Member of Parliament for Camberwell and Peckham, and was MP for the predecessorPeckham constituency from 1982 to 1997...

 in a by-election

Peckham by-election, 1982

The Peckham by-election of 28 October 1982 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament Harry Lamborn on 21 August 1982. The seat was retained for Labour by Harriet Harman.-Results:...

 later that year. Harman is the current Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and represents this constituency (as modified by later boundary changes) to this day. Meanwhile, Harry Lamborn's name lives on in a block of sheltered flats for the elderly built by Southwark Council in the Peckham area.

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