About Percy Shurmer
Lived 1888 – 1959 (aged 70–71). Percy Shurmer was a British politician.
Percy Lionel Edward Shurmer (1888 – 29 May 1959) was a British Labour Party politician and postal worker.
In the 1945 general election, he won the Birmingham Sparkbrook constituency from the Conservative Member of Parliament, Leo Amery. Shurmer held the seat until death some months before the 1959 general election, when it was regained by the Conservatives.
He is commemorated by a blue plaque, erected by Birmingham Civic Society on the school named after him, Percy Shurmer Academy, near his former home, at 140 Belgrave Road in Birmingham in 2009.
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Who was Percy Shurmer?
British politician (1888-1959)
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Percy Shurmer was born in 1888.
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Percy Shurmer died on 29 May 1959.
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Percy Shurmer was a politician.
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Percy Shurmer was British.
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