About Bennie Abrahams
Lived 1906 – 1990 (aged 83–84). Bennie Abrahams was a politician.
Benney (Bennie) Abrahams (28 July 1906 – 29 January 1990) was a local Labour Party politician in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, as well as Lord Mayor of Newcastle.
Biography Born in Durham, Abrahams was a Labour councillor for the Monkchester ward of Newcastle City Council, and in 1981/2 Lord Mayor of Newcastle. He died in January 1990 at the age of 83.
Abrahams married Marion Shapiro, a concert hall violinist for the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Liverpool in 1939. She also became a Labour councillor in Newcastle. They had one son, David Abrahams, a property developer and political activist.
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Bennie Abrahams was born on 28 July 1906 in Durham.
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