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| '''Edgar Vincent Griffin''' is an ] ], previously of the ]. His son, ], is Chairman of the ].<ref name="bbcprofile">{{Citation|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4670574.stm |title=Under the skin of the BNP |publisher=BBC News |date=2006-11-10 |accessdate=2009-02-27}}</ref> | |||
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| Griffin was born in 1921 in ], ] to Edith Lucy Strawson and Edward J. Griffin. Edith Strawson was born 1880 in ], ] to Elizabeth and Vincent Strawson (1842-1895), a master apprentice of hairdressing. Strawson's siblings include: | |||
| - Alice Blanche (mispelt Blanch) Strawson (1867-1883). | |||
| - Bertie Vincent Strawson (1870-1934). Bertie married Mary Ann E. Manley (1870-1957) in 1906 in ] and had one daughter, Marjorie May Strawson (1907-1983), who married Edward George Slade Beacham (1908-1989) in 1935 in ]. | |||
| - Bessie Ellen Strawson (born 1872). Bessie married Horace Charles Ford (1883-1939) in 1909 in ] | |||
| - Louis Charles Strawson (1874-1909). | |||
| Griffin was a long-standing Conservative Party member, and a ] for the St Johns Wood Terrace ward on the ], from 1959 to 1965. His wife, Jean (nee Thomas), whom Griffin married in 1950, has stood as both a councillor and parliamentary candidate for the British National Party, standing in ] at the ], in ] for the ] and for ] in the ]. | |||
| Following the 2001 general election, and ]'s resignation as Conservative party leader, Griffin became vice-president in Wales of ]'s party leadership campaign, despite the fact that Griffin's wife had just stood against Duncan Smith in his Chingford and Woodford Green seat. Griffin was subsequently expelled from that position, and from the Conservative Party itself, when it was discovered that "he assisting the British National Party" by taking BNP-related calls at home on behalf of his wife.<ref> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1507390.stm </ref> | |||
| Griffin has been a ] since 1947. Among many senior Masonic appointments, he has been ''Worshipful Master'' and ''Worshipful Commander''. Only two other Masons have held ''Grand Rank'' for longer than Edgar Griffin, who received the ''Grand Rank of Assistant Grand Inner Guard'' in 1962.<ref> "A double presentation to our longest serving Brother" </ref> | |||
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| * "Expelled Tory laments 'one silly mistake'" | |||
| * "Duncan Smith sacks backer with BNP link" | |||
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