Timothy Brinton

Timothy Brinton ( born December 24, 1929 † 24 March 2009) was a British newscaster and politician.

Brinton was the son of a neurologist. He attended Eton College, the University of Geneva and the Central School of Speech and Drama. In the early 1950s he came as a broadcaster for the BBC, shortly after he had completed his military service. Having to 1955, he worked as a broadcaster in 1951, he worked for two years for Radio Hong Kong and then moved to ITN, where he was one of the first newscasters. During his journalistic career he has interviewed, among others, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. He was the first naked reporter on television - albeit accidentally during a broadcast on Turkish Baths - and in 1978 a guest role as himself in Mach ' on, Emmanuelle. In the early 1960s Brinton began to work freelance. His career was, however, hampered by his 1964 divorce from his wife was Jane Mari Coningham, with whom he had been married since 1954. In 1965 he married again, this time Jeanne Wedge.

In 1975 he was elected to the Kent County Council, which also included his wife. From 1979 to 1987 belonged to Brinton the House of Commons to the Conservative Party.

Brinton suffered from dementia since 2004. He died in March 2009, leaving behind his wife and six children, one son and three daughters from his first marriage and two daughters from his second marriage. His daughter Sal Brinton is also a politician, but she is a member of the Liberal Democrats.