Timothy Kitson

Who is Timothy Kitson?

Sir Timothy Peter Geoffrey Kitson is 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 educated at Charterhouse and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester and became a farmer. He served as a councillor on the North Riding County Council from 1957–61 and was a committee member of the North Riding of Yorkshire branch of the Country Landowners' Association. 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.