George Ernest Winterton (17 May 1873 – 15 May 1942) was a British politician and journalist. Born in Oadby in

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, Winterton was educated locally, then at the

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, where he qualified as a teacher. He became involved in the temperance movement, and also concerned about the conduct of the police. After working in teaching, in 1920, he became a journalist on the ''

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'', spending nine years at the paper.Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees, ''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament'', vol.3, pp.387-388 Winterton joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1911, and in 1917 he founded a new branch in

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and 1924 general elections, before finally winning the seat in

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. He then lost at the 1931 general election, and failed to win the seat back in

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. He was father of the journalist and crime fiction author,

Paul Winterton Paul Winterton (12 February 1908 – 8 January 2001) was an English journalist and crime novelist. During his career he used the pseudonyms Andrew Garve, Roger Bax and Paul Somers. Winterton was born in Leicester, the son of Ernest Winterton, ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Winterton, Ernest 1873 births 1942 deaths Independent Labour Party politicians Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Loughborough People from Oadby Schoolteachers from Leicestershire UK MPs 1929–1931