Baron Burden, of Hazlebarrow in the County of Derby, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1950 for the Labour

Labour Party (UK)

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 politician Thomas Burden

Thomas Burden, 1st Baron Burden

Thomas William Burden, 1st Baron Burden , was a British Labour Party politician and church official.Burden was the son of Thomas Burden, Mayor of East Ham in 1935, and was educated at the London School of Economics. In 1942 he was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for...

. He had previously represented Sheffield Park

Sheffield Park (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the House of Commons

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 and after his elevation to the peerage served as a Lord-in-Waiting

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 (government whip) from 1950 to 1951 in the Labour administration

Labour Government 1945-1951

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 of Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955...

. the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1995.

Barons Burden (1950)

• Thomas William Burden, 1st Baron Burden
  Thomas Burden, 1st Baron Burden
  Thomas William Burden, 1st Baron Burden , was a British Labour Party politician and church official.Burden was the son of Thomas Burden, Mayor of East Ham in 1935, and was educated at the London School of Economics. In 1942 he was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for...
  
  (1885–1970)
• Philip William Burden, 2nd Baron Burden (1916–1995)
• Andrew Philip Burden, 3rd Baron Burden (b. 1959)