Ernest Kinghorn

{{Short description|British politician (1907–2001)}}

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Ernest Kinghorn (1 November 1907 – 15 January 2001){{cite web|title=Kinghorn, Squadron Leader Ernest|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U23165|work=Who Was Who|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=8 February 2014}}{{Rayment-hc|g|2|date=March 2012}} 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.{{cite book

|last1=Stenton

|first1=Michael

|last2=Lees

|first2=Stephens

|title=Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume IV, 1945–1979

|year=1981

|publisher=The Harvester Press

|location=Brighton

|isbn=0-85527-335-6

|pages=205–206

}} 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.

He unsuccessfully contested the Hexham division of Northumberland at the 1935 general election,{{cite book

|last=Craig

|first=F. W. S.

|authorlink= F. W. S. Craig

|title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949

|orig-date=1969

|edition=3rd

|year=1983

|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn= 0-900178-06-X

|page=441

}} but at the general election in July 1945 he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth.Craig, page 138 He was re-elected in 1950,{{London Gazette

|issue= 38851

|date=28 February 1950

|page=1040

|city=London

}} but at the 1951 general election he was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate Sir Anthony Fell.{{cite web

|url=http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge51/i21.htm

|title=UK General Election results October 1951

|work=Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources

|accessdate=12 November 2010

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811153537/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge51/i21.htm

|archive-date=11 August 2011

|url-status=dead

}} He stood again in 1955, but without success.{{cite web

|url=http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge55/i21.htm

|title=UK General Election results May 1955

|work=Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources

|accessdate=12 November 2010

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811165641/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge55/i21.htm

|archive-date=11 August 2011

|url-status=dead

}}

He moved to Hanworth in the Middlesex suburbs of London. He was a member of Middlesex County Council from 1958 to 1965{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|title=Middlesex County Council|date=14 April 1961|page=8}}{{cite book|title=Municipal Yearbook and Public Services Directory|year=1960|publisher=Municipal Journal|place=London|page=726}} and of the successor Greater London Council from 1964 to 1967{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|title=Greater London Council Results|date=11 April 1964|page=6}} as well as Hounslow Borough Council from 1964 to 1968.{{cite book|title=Municipal Yearbook and Public Services Directory|year=1967|publisher=Municipal Journal|place=London|page=904}}