Ernest Rogers Millington (15 February 1916– ) is a former British Labour Member of Parliament. February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 - The Royal Army Medical Corps first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... The Labour Party is the principal left wing (debatable) political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ...

Millington was educated at Chigwell, the College of St Mark and St John, Chelsea and Birkbeck College, London. He served with the R.A.F. Lancaster Squad during the Second World War, rising to the rank of Wing-Commander and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1945. Chigwell is a suburban development in the Epping Forest district of Essex. ... The façade of the main building of Birkbeck, University of London (formerly Birkbeck College). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Wing Commander (rank) is a rank in the Royal Air Force, equivalent to a Lieutenant Colonel in most Armies, the Royal Marines and the United States Marine Corps. ... The Distinguished Flying Cross (D.F.C.) is a decoration for courage shown in air combat. ...

He was elected as Member of Parliament for Chelmsford at a by-election in April 1945, for the short-lived Common Wealth Party. The vacancy was created by the death of the previous Conservative member, Col. J.R.J. Macnamara, killed on active service in Italy. Chelmsford (UK Parliament constituency) can refer to West Chelmsford East Chelmsford, part of Maldon and East Chelmsford constituency This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. ... The Common Wealth Party was a socialist political group active in the United Kingdom in the 1940s. ...

Millington saw himself "as a communist with a small c", and advocated a socialist programme based on nationalisation of the land and public ownership. At the by-election he overturned a Conservative majority of 16,000 to win by 6,431 votes, becoming the baby of the House of Commons. He was one of the first public figures to question the morality of the area bombardment of Germany. The Baby of the House is the unofficial moniker given to the youngest member of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Aerial area bombardment is the policy of indiscriminate bombing of an enemys cities, for the purpose of destroying the enemys means of producing military materiel, communications, government centres and civilian morale. ...

• "We want -that is, the people who served in Bomber Command of the Royal Air Force and their next of kin- a categorical assurance that the work we did was militarily and strategically justified." House of Commons, 12 March 1946.

He held his seat in the 1945 UK general election and joined the Labour Party in April 1946. He lost his seat in the 1950 UK general election. March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... (Redirected from 1945 UK general election) The British general election of 1945 held on July 5th 1945 but not counted and declared until July 26, 1945 (due to the time it took to transport the votes of those serving overseas) was one of the most significant general elections of the... (Redirected from 1950 UK general election) The United Kingdom general election in 1950 was the first general election ever after a full term of a Labour government. ...

He rejoined the R.A.F. in 1954, but later embarked on a career in education, becoming the Head of Education at Shoreditch Comprehensive School in 1965. He later retired to France, where he still lives. Shoreditch is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. ...

As of 2006, he is one of only two living former MPs elected prior to the 1945 general election, the other being John Profumo. Millington's autobiography, Was That Really Me?, was published in 2006. 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Dennis Profumo, CBE (born January 30, 1915), often called Jack Profumo, was the British Conservative Party cabinet minister whose indiscretions effectively discredited the government in 1963, before its defeat in 1964. ... An autobiography (from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write) is a biography written by the subject or composed conjointly with a collaborative writer (styled as told to or with). The term dates from the late eighteenth century, but the form is much older. ...