Leslie Burgin

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Leslie Burgin

Edward Leslie Burgin , PC (* 13. July 1887 ; † 16th August 1945 ) was a British politician of the Liberal Party and later the National Liberal Party , the 1929-1945 Member of Parliament ( House of Commons ) was as well as various ministerial posts held .

Life

Solicitor and unsuccessful House of Commons candidates

Edward Leslie Burgin, son of the solicitor Edward Lambert Burgin, began to study law at the University of London after attending school , which he graduated in 1908 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) with honors. He then took up a position as a solicitor and specialized in international law . He earned a doctorate in law (LL.D.) in 1913 and was intermittent director of studies for the Law Society .

In a by-election (by-election) in the constituency Hornsey on November 10, 1921 ran Burgin for the Liberal Party for a seat in the lower house ( House of Commons ) , but was defeated William Ward of the Unionist Party with 15,959 votes (53.4 percent) to 13,943 votes (46.6 percent). In the subsequent general election on November 15, 1922, he again defeated Ward with 18,462 votes (53.2 percent) to 16,239 votes (46.8 percent). In the general election on December 6, 1923 , he lost again to Ward, this time with 16,812 votes (47.4 percent) to 15,197 votes (42.8 percent). In the general election on October 29, 1924 , he ran again in the constituency of Hornsey and now lost against the new candidate of the Unionist Party, Euan Wallace, with 21,017 votes (54.6 percent) to 13,217 votes (34.3 percent). In a by-election in the constituency of East Ham North on April 29, 1926, he came to the candidate of the Labor Party , Susan Lawrence (10,798 votes, 40.64 percent), and the candidate of the Unionist Party, George Jarrett (9,171 votes, 34.51 Percent), with 6,603 votes (24.85 percent) only in third place.

Member of the House of Commons and Minister

Leslie Burgin was elected a member of the House of Commons for the first time in the general election on May 30, 1929 for the Liberal Party in the Luton constituency and was able to defeat the previous constituency owner Terence O'Connor of the Conservative Party with 20,248 votes (45.5 percent) 16,930 votes (38 percent) prevail. In the subsequent general election on October 27, 1931 , he was again a member of the Luton constituency for the National Liberal Party , which had split off from the Liberal Party under the leadership of John Allsebrook Simon , with 32,015 votes (80.2 percent) Elected House of Commons and belonged to it until July 5, 1945.

On September 29, 1932, Leslie Burgin assumed his first government office as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in the second national government and held this office from June 18, 1935 to May 28, 1937 in the third national government . In the fourth National government , he was on 28 May 1937 a member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) called and also took over the post of transport minister, which he held until his replacement by Euan Wallace on 21 April 1939th After a cabinet reshuffle he was between 21 April and 14 July 1939 Minister without Portfolio (Minister without Portfolio) and then took over on July 21, 1939, the Office of Supply Minister (Minister of Supply) , which he between September 3, 1939 and on May 10, 1940 also served in Chamberlain's wartime government .

Publications

  • The Students' Conflict of Laws: Being an Introduction to the Study of Private International Law, Based on Dicey , co-author Eric George Molyneux Fletcher , Stevens and Sons, Limited, 1934

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Craig, FWS: British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 , 3rd edition 1983, ISBN 0-900178-06-X .
  2. ↑ In the general election on November 14, 1935 , he received 28,809 votes (65.5 percent)
  3. ↑ PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1915--1968 in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
  4. ↑ GOVERNMENT CHAMBERLAIN (July 28, 1937 - May 10, 1940)
personal data
SURNAME Burgin, Leslie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burgin, Edward Leslie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1887
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1945