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(George) Ernest Winterton (17 May 1873 - 15 May 1942) was a British school teacher, journalist and Labour Party politician.

Born in Leicester, he was educated at Charnwood Street Elementary School in the town and at Borough Road College, Isleworth, where he qualified as an elementary school teacher. He first taught in Leicster where he was an active member of the National Union of Teachers. He was also a Baptist and temperance activist and secretary of the Leicestershire and  District Temperance  Union. He subsequently worked in Manchester, where he was a lay preacher in a Congregational Church. He was later employed in West Ham, where he was the first secretary of the West Ham Teachers Association.

In 1911 he joined the Independent Labour Party, and in 1917 formed a local party Richmond in the south eastern suburbs of London. He subsequently moved to Warlingham, Surrey where he was a preacher at a Wesleyan church and became chairman of the East Surrey Labour Party in 1921. From 1920 to 1929 he worked for the Daily Herald, the daily newspaper supported by the trade union movement.

when he was elected as member of parliament for Loughborough.