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100 years on - Honest Dan, the forgotten man

1854 to 1924
Burnley

100 years on - Honest Dan, the forgotten man

Dan Irving's grave in Burnley Cemetery.
On 25th January 1924, just as a first Labour government was taking office, Burnley’s MP Dan Irving died in his rooms in Clapham. He was 69. To mark the centenary of his death, see the first image in this sequence for a brief summary of his remarkable life, concentrating on the Burnley years.

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