Norman Atkinson (25 March 1923 – 8 July 2013[1]) was a Britishpolitician who served asLabourMember of Parliament for theLondon constituency ofTottenham from 1964 until 1987.
Manchester-born, Atkinson was educated at technical school and became a design engineer atManchester University.
Atkinson was a councillor onManchester City Council 1945–49. He contestedManchester Wythenshawe in1955 andAltrincham and Sale in1959, before being elected for Tottenham in the1964 general election.
A member of Labour'sNational Executive Committee for five years, Atkinson also served as the party'snational treasurer from 1976 to 1981. As treasurer, he clashed with ChancellorDenis Healey at the 1976 Labour Party Conference.[2] He was a founding member of theSocialist Campaign Group.
He did not contest the1987 general election, having beendeselected by his constituency party (subsequent to boundary changes in 1983 which added roughly half of the oldWood Green constituency) in favour ofBernie Grant.[3]
After he ceased being an MP, Atkinson authored a book onSir Joseph Whitworth (The World’s Best Mechanician, 1996) and a play (Old Merrypebbles).
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