Bennie Abrahams Explained

Birth Date:	28 July 1906
Birth Place:	Durham, England
Children:	David Abrahams

Benney (Bennie) Abrahams (28 July 1906^[1] – 29 January 1990) was a local Labour Party politician in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, as well as Lord Mayor of Newcastle.

Born in Durham,^[2] Abrahams was a Labour councillor for the Monkchester ward of Newcastle City Council, and in 1981/2 Lord Mayor of Newcastle. He died in January 1990 at the age of 83.^{[3] [4]}

Abrahams married Marion Shapiro, a concert hall violinist for the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra^[5] in Liverpool in 1939. She also became a Labour councillor in Newcastle.^[6] They had one son, David Abrahams, a property developer and political activist.

Notes and References

1. Web site: FreeBMD Entry Info .
2. Web site: FreeBMD District Info .
3. Web site: Bennie Abrahams - Bio at newcastle.gov.uk. https://web.archive.org/web/20071130181519/http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/1981babrahams. dead. 30 November 2007.
4. Book: American Bar Association Fidelity and Surety Law Committee . American Jewish Year Book, 1992 . Jewish Pubn Society . 1992 . 319. 0-8276-0429-7 .
5. News: Political Lives: David Abrahams . BBC News . 17 February 2014 .
6. News: . 2007-11-30 . The donor, the activist and the big questions . PressReader. 18 October 2023 . Nathan . Jeffay . Jan . Shure . Bernard . Josephs.