Timothy Kitson, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetTimothy Kitson
British politician
Date of Birth: 28-Jan-1931
Date of Death: 18-May-2019
Profession: politician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Timothy Kitson
- Sir Timothy Peter Geoffrey Kitson (28 January 1931 – 18 May 2019) was a British Conservative politician who was Member of Parliament for Richmond, North Yorkshire.
- He was first elected in the 1959 general election, and stood down at the 1983 general election. Kitson was the son of Geoffrey H.
- and Kathleen Kitson.
- He was educated at Charterhouse and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.
- He farmed in Australia, 1949–51.
- From 1954–57 he served as a councillor on the Thirsk Rural District Council; and from 1957–61 on North Riding County Council.
- In Parliament, he acted as joint honorary secretary of the Conservative parliamentary committee on agriculture, fisheries and food from 1965–66 and a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Prime Minister Edward Heath from 1970–74. He married Diana Mary Fattorini in 1959; there were two daughters and one son.In 1964–65 Kitson supported the Labour M.P., Sydney Silverman's, successful 'Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Bill'.
- He opposed abolition in the form finalised in 1969, however.Kitson received a knighthood in Edward Heath's resignation honours list in 1974.The droll side of his personality was caught in an anecdote told by Sir Edward Heath in his autobiography.
- Heath had friendly relations with the Singapore politician, Lee Kuan Yew ['Harry' Lee] : "Whenever I have visited Singapore, except for the 1971 Commonwealth Conference, Harry Lee has generously settled me in his personal guest-house, and extended his hospitality to me.
- His dinners are marked by an invitation card and a menu with 'Smoking is not permitted' heavily printed at the top.
- Dining with the Lee family one time outside in his garden, I was alarmed when the butler came up to Sir Timothy Kitson, my parliamentary private secretary, and handed him a note.
- After reading it, Tim apologised to the Prime Minister [Lee Kuan Yew] and asked to be excused while he made a telephone call to London.
- He returned after some twenty minutes, but half an hour later the same thing happened.
- Again Tim came back without a word of explanation.
- When we got up after dinner, I quietly went up to him and said, 'Tim, what was all that about ? Is something wrong ? What is happening in London?' 'I didn't worry you because everything is perfectly all right,' he replied.
- 'I just had to have a smoke.' "He died on 18 May 2019.
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