John Tyndall (politician)
| John Tyndall | |
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Tyndall addressing a Nationalist Alliance meeting in 2005
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| Chairman of the British National Party | |
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In office 1982 – 27 September 1999 |
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| Deputy | Richard Edmonds |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Nick Griffin |
| Chairman of the National Front | |
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In office 1976–1980 |
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| Preceded by | John Kingsley Read |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Brons |
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In office 1972–1974 |
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| Preceded by | John O'Brien |
| Succeeded by | John Kingsley Read |
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| Born |
John Hutchyns Tyndall 14 July 1934 Exeter, Devon, England |
| Died | 19 July 2005 (aged 71) Hove, East Sussex |
| Political party |
League of Empire Loyalists 1954–1957, National Labour Party 1957–1960, British National Party (1960) 1960–1962, National Socialist Movement 1962–1964, Greater Britain Movement 1964–1967, National Front 1967–1980, New National Front 1980–1982, British National Party 1982–2005 |
| Spouse(s) | Valerie Tyndall |
| Children | One daughter |
John Hutchyns Tyndall (14 July 1934 – 19 July 2005) was a British Neo-Nazi political activist. A leading member of various small Neo-Nazi groups during the late 1950s and 1960s, he served as chairman of the National Front from 1972 to 1974 and again from 1975 to 1980, and then as the chairman of the British National Party from 1982 to 1999. Over the course of his political career he unsuccessfully stood for election to the British and European Parliaments on several occasions.
Born in Devon and schooled in Kent, Tyndall undertook national service prior to embracing the extreme-right. In the mid-1950s he joined the League of Empire Loyalists (LEL) and came under the influence of its leader, Arthur Chesterton. Finding the LEL too moderate, in 1957 he co-founded the National Labour Party (NLP) with John Bean, an explicitly "National Socialist" (Nazi) group. In 1960 the NLP merged with Colin Jordan's White Defence League to found the first British National Party (BNP), with Tyndall and Jordan establishing a paramilitary wing called Spearhead. Bean and other BNP members were unhappy with this and expelled Tyndall and Jordan, who went on to establish the National Socialist Movement and then the wider World Union of National Socialists. In 1962 they were convicted and imprisoned for their paramilitary activities. After a split with Jordan, Tyndall formed his Greater Britain Movement (GBM) in 1964. Although never changing his basic beliefs, by the mid-1960s Tyndall was replacing his overt references to Nazism with appeals to British nationalism.
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