Maurice Orbach was a British

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 Labour Party

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 politician.

Life

Orbach was born to a Jewish family.

Orbach was educated at technical college in Wales

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 and as an extramural

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 student at New York University

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. He was general secretary

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 of the Trades Advisory Council from 1940 and chairman of Central Middlesex Group hospital management committee.

Orbach contested Willesden East

Willesden East (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in 1935 and in a 1938 by-election. In 1937 he was elected to the London County Council

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, representing St Pancras South West

St Pancras South West (UK Parliament constituency)

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. He was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Willesden East in 1945, serving until his defeat in 1959, and for Stockport South

Stockport South (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1964 until his death just before the 1979 general election. His successor was Thomas McNally.

In 2010 The Guardian

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referred to him as "a self-proclaimed Labour Zionist who had conspicuously failed to support Israel during the Suez crisis."

Children

Daughter Susie Orbach

Susie Orbach

Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer, and social critic from London, UK.-Background:Orbach was born in London, in 1946, and was brought up in Chalk Farm, north London, the child of Jewish parents, British MP Maurice Orbach and an American mother...

 is a psychotherapist and writer, and co-founder of The Women's Therapy Centre in London.

Son Laurence Orbach taught history at Columbia University

Columbia University

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, New York, before founding Quarto Publishing in London in 1976. He is currently chairman and CEO of The Quarto Group, Inc.

Quarto Group

Quarto Group Inc is an international publishing house based in London and New York City, known for its illustrated books.It was established in London in 1976 by co-founders Laurence Orbach and Robert Morley and was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1986...

External links

• Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974