Kenneth Pickthorn

Sir Kenneth William Murray Pickthorn, 1st Baronet, PC (23 April 1892 – 12 November 1975) was a British academic and politician.

The eldest son of Charles Wright Pickthorn, master mariner, and Edith Maud Berkeley Murray, he was educated at Aldenham School and at Trinity College, Cambridge.

In World War I he served with the 15th London Regiment and the Royal Air Force in France and Macedonia.

He was awarded the degree of LittD by Cambridge University in 1936, created a baronet in 1959 and appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1964.

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