# Harry Lamborn

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{{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](/source/Peckham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) (1974–1982)<br />[Southwark](/source/Southwark_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) (1972–1974)
|term_start = 4 May 1972
|term_end = 21 August 1982
|predecessor = [Ray Gunter](/source/Ray_Gunter)
|successor = [Harriet Harman](/source/Harriet_Harman)
|office1 = Member of the [Greater London Council](/source/Greater_London_Council)
|term_start1 = 1 April 1965
|term_end1 = 1972
|predecessor1 = ''Office established''
|constituency1 = [Southwark](/source/Southwark_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
|office2 = Member of the [London County Council](/source/London_County_Council)
|term_start2 = 1953
|term_end2 = 1 April 1965
|successor2 = ''Office abolished''
|constituency2 = [Dulwich](/source/Dulwich_(London_County_Council_constituency))
|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](/source/Eastbourne), England
|party = [Labour](/source/Labour_Party_(UK))
|spouse = {{marriage|Lilian Smith|1938}}
|children = 3
}}

'''Harry George Lamborn''' (1 May 1915 – 21 August 1982) was a British [Labour Party](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) politician. He was a [councillor](/source/councillor) from 1953, then a [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) (MP) from 1972 until his death in 1982.

==Early political life==
Lamborn was born in [Dulwich](/source/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](/source/The_Times) |date=24 August 1982 |access-date=28 July 2022 |page=10}}</ref> He was a member of [Camberwell Borough Council](/source/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Camberwell) from 1953 to 1965, including being mayor in 1963/4. He represented the [Dulwich](/source/Dulwich_(London_County_Council_constituency)) constituency on the [London County Council](/source/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](/source/Greater_London_Council), for the constituency of [Southwark](/source/Southwark_(electoral_division)), 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](/source/Ray_Gunter) resigned from the [House of Commons](/source/British_House_of_Commons), Lamborn was elected at a by-election in May 1972 for the constituency of [Southwark](/source/Southwark_(UK_Parliament_constituency)).<ref name=Times/> After his constituency was eliminated in boundary changes, he ran in the newly configured [Peckham](/source/Peckham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) and was comfortably re-elected in the [February 1974 general election](/source/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election), at which the [Labour Party](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) returned to office, albeit without a majority.<ref name=Times/> He was [Parliamentary Private Secretary](/source/Parliamentary_Private_Secretary) (PPS) to the [Chancellor of the Exchequer](/source/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer), [Denis Healey](/source/Denis_Healey), from 1974 to 1979.<ref name=Times/>

At the [general election of 1979](/source/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election) the Labour Government was defeated, and a [Conservative Party](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) Government was elected under [Margaret Thatcher](/source/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](/source/1983_United_Kingdom_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](/source/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](/source/The_Times) |date=23 August 1982 |page=2 |access-date=28 July 2022}}</ref> and was succeeded as MP for Peckham by [Harriet Harman](/source/Harriet_Harman) in [a by-election](/source/1982_Peckham_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](/source/Southwark_London_Borough_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](/source/Old_Kent_Road) in [Peckham](/source/Peckham).

==References==
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== External links ==
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