Leslie Burgin
Leslie Burgin | |
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| Member of Parliament for Luton | |
| In office 30 May 1929 – 15 June 1945 | |
| Preceded by | Terence O'Connor |
| Succeeded by | William Warbey |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 July 1887 |
| Died | 16 August 1945 (aged 58) |
| Political party | Liberal National (1931-1945) Liberal (before 1931) |
Edward Leslie Burgin (13 July 1887 – 16 August 1945) was a British Liberal and later Liberal National politician in the 1930s.
Biography
Born to Edward Lambert Burgin, a solicitor, Burgin studied law at the
LL.D. in 1913.[1]
Burgin trained as a solicitor specialising in international law and served as principal and director of legal studies to the
Law Society. He contested Hornsey four times and East Ham North
once, without success.
In the
Privy Council in the 1937 Coronation Honours.[2]
In 1937 Prime Minister
Minister for Coordination of Defence). When Chamberlain was replaced by Winston Churchill, Burgin was not included in the new wartime
ministry.
Burgin was referred to in the book Guilty Men (1940) by Michael Foot, Frank Owen and Peter Howard (writing under the pseudonym 'Cato'), an attack on public figures for their failure to re-arm and their appeasement of Nazi Germany.[4]
He retired at the 1945 general election before dying in August 1945, aged 58.
References
- JSTOR 743263.
- ^ "No. 34396". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 May 1937. p. 3075.
- ^ Taylor, A. J. P. (1965). English History 1914-1945. Oxford University Press. p. 444n.
- OCLC 301463537.
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