Keith Kyle
Keith Kyle (4 August 1925, Sturminster Newton, Dorset – 21 February 2007, London) was a British writer, broadcaster and historian.
Early life
Kyle was educated at
Oxford University
, where his period as an undergraduate was broken by war service.
Career
He worked for the
UDI.[4]
From the late 1960s, Kyle began an academic career, while remaining active as a journalist for some years. He was a Fellow of the
I.B.Tauris
.
Parliamentary candidacies
Kyle had a chequered career as a parliamentary candidate. He had hoped to become a Conservative candidate in 1956, but government policy on Suez dissuaded him. He was an unsuccessful Labour Party candidate in St Albans in 1966, for Braintree in both 1974 elections and was the Northampton South SDP candidate in 1983.[1]
References
- ^ a b Jeremy Harding "Right, Left and Centre", London Review of Books, 6 August 2009, p34
- ^ David Wedgwood Benn "Keith Kyle"[dead link], The Independent, 13 March 2007
- ^ a b "Keith Kyle", Daily Telegraph, 22 February 2007
- ^ "Keith Kyle", The Times, 7 March 2007
- ^ Sandra Harris "Obituary: Keith Kyle", The Guardian, 27 February 2007
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