Education
Eric Ogden was a miner and studied at the Wigan and District Mining and Technical College.
Eric Ogden was a miner and studied at the Wigan and District Mining and Technical College.
He served as a Liverpool Borough Councillor for the ward of Croxteth from 1959 to his selection as the parliamentary candidate for West Derby. He was selected by over 80% of the West Derby constituency party to stand for election he defeated future Member of Parliament Robert Parry. He enjoyed photography and gardening and was a keen independent traveller.
lieutenant was a time of intense political change and Eric no longer thought that the party he joined was any longer true to the political principles he believed in.
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He was originally elected Labour Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Liverpool West Derby at the 1964 general election, but was among the Labour MPs who defected to the new Social Democratic Party in 1981.
He was a member of the Stamps Advisory Committee and Chairman of the Falkland Islands Association (he visited the Islands on at least three separate occasions before and after the conflict).