About Harry Lamborn
Lived 1915 – 1982 (aged 67). Harry Lamborn was a British politician.
Harry George Lamborn (1 May 1915 – 21 August 1982) was a British Labour Party politician. He was a councillor from 1953, then a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1972 until his death in 1982.
Early political life Lamborn was born in Dulwich. He was a member of Camberwell Borough Council from 1953 to 1965, including being mayor in 1963/4. He represented the Dulwich constituency on the London County Council between 1958 and 1965. and was succeeded as MP for Peckham by Harriet Harman in a by-election later that year.
His name is memorialized in that of Harry Lamborn House, a block of sheltered flats for the elderly built by Southwark Council on Gervase Street, off the Old Kent Road in Peckham.
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Who was Harry Lamborn?
British politician (1915-1982)
When was Harry Lamborn born?
Harry Lamborn was born on 1 May 1915.
When did Harry Lamborn die?
Harry Lamborn died on 21 August 1982 in Eastbourne.
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Harry Lamborn was a politician.
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Harry Lamborn was British.
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