The Right Honourable Ernest Fernyhough


Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
In office 1964–1967
Leader	Harold Wilson
Member of Parliament for Jarrow
In office 8 May 1947 – 7 April 1979
Preceded by	Ellen Wilkinson
Succeeded by	Don Dixon

Personal details
Born	(1908-12-24)24 December 1908 Wood Lane, Staffordshire^[1]
Died	16 August 1993(1993-08-16) (aged 84) Chester, Cheshire
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Ethel Edwards (m. 1934; died 1977)
Children	3

Ernest Fernyhough (24 December 1908 – 16 August 1993) was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 32 years.

Political career

Fernyhough worked for the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers from 1936 to 1947.^[2]^[1]

In 1947, Fernyhough was elected Member of Parliament for the Labour stronghold of Jarrow in a by-election caused by the death of Ellen Wilkinson - and held the seat until he retired in 1979.^[3]

Fernyhough was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Harold Wilson from 1964 and a junior minister for Employment and Productivity from 1967 to 1969. He was also a member of the Council of Europe from 1970 to 1973.^[2]

Personal life

In 1934, Fernyhough married Ethel Edwards, and the couple had two sons and a daughter. The oldest John Fernyhough died in June 2020 aged 82 and the youngest Margaret (Married surname Sutcliffe) is still currently alive, with youngest child Andy Sutcliffe . Ernest had 2 older brothers

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