He was born in Featherstone, West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Ernest Lofthouse, a farm labourer in Micklefield, and Emma (née Fellows).

At the age of 14, Geoff Lofthouse went to work at Ackton Hall Colliery in Featherstone.

In the Queen's Birthday Honours 1995 Lofthouse was appointed a Knight Bachelor.

[3][4] His autobiography, A Very Miner MP,[5] is available from Yorkshire Art Circus Publishers.

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