Harold Edward Gurden was a British

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Gurden was educated in Birmingham

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 at Lyttelton School and Birmingham University. He married Lucy Isabella, née Izon, on the 16th April, 1929. He became a technician in the dairy and food industries and was founder president of Birmingham and District Dairymen's Association (1947–1950) and chairman of the Society of Dairy Technology (Midland Division). He was sometime President of the RSPCA.

Gurden served as a councillor on Birmingham City Council

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 from 1946–1956, representing the ward of Selly Oak

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Gurden was Member of Parliament

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 for Birmingham Selly Oak from May 1955 to October 1974, when he lost the seat to Labour

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Gurden was one of the first MPs to join the Conservative Monday Club

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