Albert James Murray, Baron Murray of Gravesend (9 January 1930 – 10 February 1980) was a British Labour Party politician. Murray represented Dulwich on

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from 1958 until the council's abolition, in 1965. At the 1964 general election, he was elected as

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(MP) for

Gravesend Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross (central London) on the south bank of the River Thames and opposite Tilbury in Essex. Located in the diocese of Rochester, it is ...

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

, a marginal seat which was normally won by the party forming the government. Indeed, Murray held the seat until it was regained by the

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in 1970, the year

Edward Heath Sir Edward Richard George Heath (9 July 191617 July 2005), often known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath a ...

became

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. From 1969 to 1970, he was a junior minister in

Harold Wilson James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970, and again from March 1974 to April 1976. He ...

's government, as

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, under

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Richard Marsh. After leaving the

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, Murray was given a

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age on 28 June 1976 as Baron Murray of Gravesend, of

in the

County of Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces the ...

. From 1976 to 1979 he was a Member of the European Parliament. He died in 1980, at the age of 50 whilst watching his beloved

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. He was also President of Gravesend & Northfleet and the North Kent Sunday Football League.

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* 1930 births 1980 deaths Labour Party (UK) MEPs Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Labour Party (UK) life peers MEPs for the United Kingdom 1973–1979 Members of London County Council Members of Southwark Metropolitan Borough Council Ministers in the Wilson governments, 1964–1970 UK MPs 1964–1966 UK MPs 1966–1970 UK MPs who were granted peerages Life peers created by Elizabeth II {{UK-MEP-stub