Ernest Kinghorn

Ernest Kinghorn (1 November 1907 – 15 January 2001)[1][2] was a British Labour Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1945 to 1951. Kinghorn was born in Leeds, and became a teacher after studying at the universities of Leeds, Basle and Lille.[3] During World War II he served as an intelligence officer with the Royal Air Force, and in 1945 he was a staff officer with the Control Commission in Germany.[3]

He unsuccessfully contested the Hexham division of Northumberland at the 1935 general election,[4] but at the general election in July 1945 he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth.[5] He was re-elected in 1950,[6] but at the 1951 general election he was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate Anthony Fell.[7] He stood again in 1955, but without success.[8]

He moved to Hanworth in the Middlesex suburbs of London.[1] He was a member of Middlesex County Council from 1958 to 1965[9][10] and of the successor Greater London Council from 1964 to 1967[11] as well as Hounslow Borough Council from 1964 to 1968.[12]

References
  1. "Kinghorn, Squadron Leader Ernest". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)
  3. Stenton, Michael; Lees, Stephens (1981). Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume IV, 1945–1979. Brighton: The Harvester Press. pp. 205–206. ISBN 0-85527-335-6.
  4. Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 441. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
  5. Craig, page 138
  6. "No. 38851". The London Gazette. 28 February 1950. p. 1040.
  7. "UK General Election results October 1951". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
  8. "UK General Election results May 1955". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
  9. "Middlesex County Council". The Times. 14 April 1961. p. 8.
  10. Municipal Yearbook and Public Services Directory. London: Municipal Journal. 1960. p. 726.
  11. "Greater London Council Results". The Times. 11 April 1964. p. 6.
  12. Municipal Yearbook and Public Services Directory. London: Municipal Journal. 1967. p. 904.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Percy Jewson		 Member of Parliament for Yarmouth
1945 – 1951		 Succeeded by
Anthony Fell
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