Talk:Cecil Parkinson

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What did he do for a living before entering Parliament? The job an MP has or had tells you a lot about them.


 * Too right. He was in charge of a metal box, then he trained as an accountant. --OhNoPeedyPeebles (talk) 23:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Move?
Is Parkinson so well known as Cecil Parkinson that this page shouldn't be at Cecil Parkinson, Baron Parkinson? -Rrius (talk) 23:15, 24 March 2009 (UTC)


 * How about 'Cecil Parkinson, Shagger Parkinson'?--81.76.85.58 (talk) 21:22, 3 July 2009 (UTC)


 * There is no other notable person called Cecil Parkinson, hence no need to lengthen the article's name. Aidepikiw 0 (talk) 23:35, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Why Cecil?
The article calls him Edward "Cecil" Parkinson, which implies that "Cecil" is a nickname. Is it known where that came from? 195.194.238.103 (talk) 12:19, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Humble origins?
I have read in several biographies, including the Wikipedia article, that Cecil Parkinson came from humble origins but the exact circumstances are a little vague. Is it really humble for one's father to be a "railway worker"? What is a railway worker. A train driver, a buffet bar waiter, an engineer, a station supervisor or what? Also, the school which Parkinson attended was no normal state school. It was/is a very old school dating as far back as the thirteenth century and unlike most state schools took boarders as well as day pupils. His education, at least, was far from deprived. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.187.233.172 (talk) 20:24, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

It sounds as though Parkinson came from a "respectable working class" background - I doubt he grew up in dire poverty but he was born further down the ladder than Heath and Thatcher, whose fathers were small businessmen. Lots of grammar schools were centuries old, before they were brought under increasing state control in the 1930s and 1940s, in many cases going private again in the 1970s. In the 1940s he would have had County Council assistance to go to grammar school if his parents could not afford it.MissingMia (talk) 15:23, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Supporter of football
No source given. If we must have such football trivia, perhaps a source would be good to validate it? Perhaps in fact Cecil loathed football with a vengeance!

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