Bennie Abrahams

{{Short description|English Labour Party politician}}

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Benney (Bennie) Abrahams (28 July 1906{{Cite web | url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=116853461:2162&d=bmd_1583829598 | title=FreeBMD Entry Info }} – 29 January 1990) was a local Labour Party politician in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, as well as Lord Mayor of Newcastle.

Born in Durham,{{Cite web | url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/districts.pl?r=116863046:9991&d=bmd_1586250123 | title=FreeBMD District Info }} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/1981babrahams|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071130181519/http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/1981babrahams|url-status=dead|title=Bennie Abrahams - Bio at newcastle.gov.uk|archive-date=30 November 2007}}{{cite book |author=American Bar Association Fidelity and Surety Law Committee |title=American Jewish Year Book, 1992 |publisher=Jewish Pubn Society |year=1992 |pages=319|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tqBz5i9Lqp0C&q=abrahams+mayor+newcastle+date:1980-2008 |isbn=0-8276-0429-7 }}

Abrahams married Marion Shapiro, a concert hall violinist for the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra{{Cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25869867 | title=Political Lives: David Abrahams | work=BBC News | date=17 February 2014 }} in Liverpool in 1939. She also became a Labour councillor in Newcastle.{{Cite news |work=The Jewish Chronicle |date=2007-11-30 |title=The donor, the activist and the big questions |url=https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-jewish-chronicle/20071130/textview |via=PressReader|accessdate=18 October 2023 |first=Nathan |last=Jeffay |first2=Jan |last2=Shure |first3=Bernard |last3=Josephs}} They had one son, David Abrahams, a property developer and political activist.