John Hutchyns Tyndall was a British neo-fascist political activist. A leading member of various small neo-Nazi groups during the late 1950s and 1960s, he was chairman of the National Front from 1972 t
Tyndall addressing a Nationalist Alliance meeting in 2005
In his youth, Tyndall read and was influenced by Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
Tyndall was one of the British neo-Nazis who established links with their American counterpart George Lincoln Rockwell (pictured).
A National Front (NF) march during the 1970s, the precursor movement from which the British National Party (BNP) emerged by 1982
The British National Party is a far-right, fascist political party in the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in Wigton, Cumbria, and is led by Adam Walker. A fringe party, it has no elected represent
John Tyndall (far-right activist)
…during the late 1950s and 1960s, he was chairman of the National Front (NF) from 1972 to 1974 and again from 1975 to 1980, and then chairman of the British National Party (BNP) from 1982 to 1999. He unsuccessfully stood for election to the House of Commons and European Parliament on several occasions. Born in Devon and…
Nick Griffin at a BNP press conference in Manchester in 2009
Anti-fascist protestors demonstrating against Griffin's appearance on Question Time in 2009
On taking over the party, Nick Griffin dropped its official espousal of the biological superiority of a Nordic race, instead emphasising the need for racial separatism to preserve global "ethno-pluralism".