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| caption = Photograph by Bassano Ltd, taken 1950.

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| term_end      = 1964
| predecessor   = [[James Henderson-Stewart]]
| successor     = [[David Renton, Baron Renton|David Renton]]
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| term_end1     = 25 September 1964
| predecessor1  = [[Malcolm Barclay-Harvey]]
| successor1    = [[Alick Buchanan-Smith (1932–1991)|Alick Buchanan-Smith]]
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'''Sir Colin Norman Thornton-Kemsley''', ((Post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|size=100%|OBE|TD)) (2 September 1903 – 17 July 1977) was a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] and [[National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)|National Liberal]] politician in the [[United Kingdom]].  He was the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire]] from 1939 to 1950, and for [[North Angus and Mearns (UK Parliament constituency)|North Angus and Mearns]] from 1950 until his retirement at the [[1964 United Kingdom general election|1964 general election]].

==Early life==
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Thornton-Kemsley was born in 1903 and grew up in a London suburb. He was educated at [[Chigwell School]], and graduated from [[Wadham College, Oxford]].

Whilst he had a Scottish grandfather, he had no real connection to Scotland until 1930, when he married Alice Thornton; his second cousin and the granddaughter of prominent Dundee lawyer, Sir Thomas Thornton, who had purchased Thornton castle in [[Kincardineshire]] in 1893, and at the time of the wedding Thornton was the owner and resident of the property.

==Political career==
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Thornton-Kemsley was an active member of the Conservative [[Epping (UK Parliament constituency)|constituency association]] for the London suburb of Epping, where he lived. He also served as the Honorary Treasurer of [[Essex]] and [[Middlesex]] Provincial Area, National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. 

As a member of the Epping constituency party he made a name for himself in Conservative Party circles as a [[Neville Chamberlain]] loyalist who was central to bringing about a censure of [[Winston Churchill]] by the Epping Conservative Association.

In 1939 [[Malcolm Barclay-Harvey]], the incumbent Unionist Member of Parliament for [[Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire]], was offered the position of [[Governor of South Australia]]. Thornton-Kemsley, due to his previous role in trying to bringing about a censure of Churchill by the Epping Conservative Association, was offered the candidacy.

At the outbreak of the [[World War II|Second World War]] in 1939, Kemsley apologized. Churchill's reply was characteristic: ''"I certainly think that Englishmen ought to start fair with one another from the outset in so grievous a struggle, and so far as I am concerned the past is dead."'' (See Thornton-Kemsley, “Winston Secures his Base” in Through Winds and Tides, 1974, pp. 
26–36.)

Having joined the [[Army Reserve (United Kingdom)|Territorial Army]] (TA) before the war on 31 July 1925, where he was [[Officer (armed forces)|commissioned]] into the 85th (East Anglian) Field Artillery Brigade of the [[Royal Artillery]], Thornton-Kemsley served during the war.<ref name="Officers of the British Army">((cite web|url=https://www.unithistories.com/officers/Army_officers_T01.html#Thornton-Kemsley_CN|title=British Army officer histories|publisher=Unit Histories|date=2022-01-04))</ref> His unit, now the 85th (East Anglian) Field Artillery Regiment, Royal Artillery, was mobilised but went to attend the [[Staff College, Camberley|British Army Staff College]] at Camberley, from where he graduated and then served as a [[Staff (military)|staff officer]] with [[Scottish Command]] and later [[Eastern Command (United Kingdom)|Eastern Command]].<ref name="Officers of the British Army" />

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== External links ==
*[https://www.unithistories.com/officers/Army_officers_T01.html#Thornton-Kemsley_CN British Army Officers 1939−1945]
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