Oswald O'Brien (6 April 1928 – 10 March 1997) was a British

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 Labour Co-operative

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 politician.

He was born Oswald O'Brien into a family of teachers in 1928, in Darlington. From St Mary's Grammar School he went to Faircroft College and St Cuthbert's Society

St Cuthbert's Society

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 in the University of Durham before National Service in the Navy.

O'Brien was an official of the Co-operative College

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.

O'Brien was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Darlington

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 in the March 1983 by-election

Darlington by-election, 1983

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 following the death of Edward Fletcher

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. But in the general election in June

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, he lost the seat to Conservative

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 candidate Michael Fallon

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 having held the seat for a mere eleven weeks. He never re-entered Parliament.

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