[1] Fountaine was subsequently involved with a number of fringe rightist movements before becoming a founding member of the National Front in 1967.

[6] He served in the Pacific as gunnery officer on the aircraft carrier HMS Indefatigable, attaining the rank of lieutenant-commander, before being invalided out after a kamikaze attack in April 1945.

[13] Along with the rest of the BNP, Fountaine became a founder member of the National Front (NF), although problems developed from the outset owing to his fractious relationship with A. K.

In the interim, Fountaine's credibility had been attacked by John Tyndall in the pages of Spearhead magazine and with his reputation damaged he was easily routed by Chesterton's 316 votes to 20.

[14] Fountaine largely disappeared from view for some years after this, although during the internal struggles of 1974, which saw Tyndall as leader pitted against a newly emerged group of populists, pro-Tyndall elements claimed that Fountaine had secretly been conspiring with Roy Painter, at the time recognised as the leader of the populist faction.

[15] Despite this, Tyndall subsequently courted the support of Fountaine following the election of John Kingsley Read, who had emerged ahead of Painter as populist leader, as NF Chairman.

[17] In November 1975, Tyndall was expelled from the party while Fountaine and Martin Webster were suspended for their part in recent machinations, although all three were reinstated by court order the following month.

Fountaine returned to public notice under Tyndall and was adopted as the party's candidate for the 1976 Coventry North West by-election.

His campaign secured only 3% of the vote in a city where the local branch had been divided by the National Party split, although Fountaine did at least beat Kingsley Read.

[8] He retired from politics in 1981 to concentrate on growing trees on his estate Narford Hall, northwest of Swaffham, and remained there until his death in 1997.