12 Facts About Wilfred Fienburgh

Wilfred Fienburgh MBE was a British Labour Party politician.

Wilfred Fienburgh took part in the Normandy landings in 1944 and was twice wounded.

Wilfred Fienburgh was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1945 and was demobilised as Major, serving on the General Staff, in 1946.

Wilfred Fienburgh continued to serve with the Territorial Army, and was a Major with the Intelligence Corps before his death.

At the general election in 1951 Fienburgh was elected as Member of Parliament for Islington North in North London, although at the time of his death he was living in Hemel Hempstead.

Percy Lucas, a friend and fellow MP, mentioned in his memoir Five Up that Wilfred Fienburgh had a burgeoning media career with both Granada Television and the Sunday Express.

Anthony Howard described him as "rather louche", and Denis Healey asserted in his autobiography The Time of My Life that Wilfred Fienburgh's "good looks and big brown eyes often led him astray".

Wilfred Fienburgh was allegedly involved in an altercation with Jennie Lee during the Labour Party conference in 1952, according to Lee's biographer Patricia Hollis.

Wilfred Fienburgh represented Islington North until his death in a car crash in 1958, aged 38.

One near-contemporary critic, Alan Lovell, writing in the New Left Review in 1961, considered No Love For Johnnie a "bad novel" and wrote that "Wilfred Fienburgh seems to have had no conception of what idealism means".

In 1940 Wilfred Fienburgh married Joan Valerie Hudson McDowell, daughter of Captain Thomas McDowell of Belfast.

Wilfred Fienburgh died aged 38 when the car he was driving collided with a lamppost at Mill Hill, London on 3 February 1958.