{{Short description|British politician}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Harry Lamborn |honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|MP|size=100%}} |parliament = United Kingdom |constituency_MP = Peckham (1974–1982)<br />Southwark (1972–1974) |term_start = 4 May 1972 |term_end = 21 August 1982 |predecessor = Ray Gunter |successor = Harriet Harman |office1 = Member of the Greater London Council |term_start1 = 1 April 1965 |term_end1 = 1972 |predecessor1 = ''Office established'' |constituency1 = Southwark |office2 = Member of the London County Council |term_start2 = 1953 |term_end2 = 1 April 1965 |successor2 = ''Office abolished'' |constituency2 = Dulwich |birth_name = Harry George Lamborn |birth_date = {{birth date|1915|5|1|df=yes}} |birth_place = London, England |death_date = {{death date and age|1982|8|21|1915|5|1|df=yes}} |death_place = Eastbourne, England |party = Labour |spouse = {{marriage|Lilian Smith|1938}} |children = 3 }}
'''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.<ref name=Times>{{cite news |title=Mr Harry Lamborn |url=https://login.thetimes.com/?gotoUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.com%2Ftto%2Farchive%2Farticle%2F1982-08-24%2F10%2F19.html |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The Times |date=24 August 1982 |access-date=28 July 2022 |page=10}}</ref> 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.<ref name=Times/> Lamborn was elected in 1964 to the LCC's successor body, the Greater London Council, for the constituency of Southwark, and was re-elected in 1967 and 1970. He was Deputy Chairman of the GLC from 1971 to 1972.<ref name=Times/>
==Member of Parliament== After Ray Gunter resigned from the House of Commons, Lamborn was elected at a by-election in May 1972 for the constituency of Southwark.<ref name=Times/> After his constituency was eliminated in boundary changes, he ran in the newly configured Peckham and was comfortably re-elected in the February 1974 general election, at which the Labour Party returned to office, albeit without a majority.<ref name=Times/> He was Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, from 1974 to 1979.<ref name=Times/>
At the general election of 1979 the Labour Government was defeated, and a Conservative Party Government was elected under Margaret Thatcher. Lamborn was comfortably re-elected but with a reduced majority.<ref name=Times/> Afterward, he announced he would not contend the next general election on health grounds.<ref name=Times/>
==Personal life and death== Lamborn married Lilian Ruth Smith in 1938, and they had three children.<ref name=Times/> He died at a hospital in Eastbourne on 21 August 1982,<ref>{{cite news |title=Labour MP dies after long illness |url=https://www.thetimes.com/tto/archive/article/1982-08-23/2/10.html |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The Times |date=23 August 1982 |page=2 |access-date=28 July 2022}}</ref> 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<ref>{{cite web |title=Harry Lamborn House |url=http://www.housingcare.org/housing-care/facility-info-12413-harry-lamborn-house-peckham-england.aspx}}</ref> on Gervase Street, off the Old Kent Road in Peckham.
==References== {{reflist}} *{{Rayment-hc|date=March 2012}}
== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-harry-lamborn | Harry Lamborn }}
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