Ernest Kinghorn

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Ernest Kinghorn (1 November 1907 – 15 January 2001)

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. ^ . Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  2. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)
  3. ^ .
  4. .
  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.

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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Yarmouth
19451951
Succeeded by