| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| Ernest Fernyhough | |
| Birth Date: | 1908 12, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Wood Lane, Staffordshire[1] |
| Death Place: | Chester, Cheshire |
| Office: | Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister |
| Term Start: | 1964 |
| Term End: | 1967 |
| Leader: | Harold Wilson |
| Office2: | Member of Parliament for Jarrow |
| Term Start2: | 8 May 1947 |
| Term End2: | 7 April 1979 |
| Predecessor2: | Ellen Wilkinson |
| Successor2: | Don Dixon |
| Parliament: | United Kingdom |
| Party: | Labour |
| Children: | 3 |
| Nationality: | British |
Ernest Fernyhough (24 December 1908 – 16 August 1993) was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 32 years.
Fernyhough worked for the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers from 1936 to 1947.[2] [3]
In 1947, Fernyhough was elected Member of Parliament for the Labour stronghold of Jarrow in a by-election caused by the death of Ellen Wilkinson - and held the seat until he retired in 1979.[4]
Fernyhough was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Harold Wilson from 1964 and a junior minister for Employment and Productivity from 1967 to 1969. He was also a member of the Council of Europe from 1970 to 1973.
In 1934, Fernyhough married Ethel Edwards, and the couple had two sons and a daughter. The oldest John Fernyhough died in June 2020 aged 82 and the youngest Margaret is still alive.
Ernest had 2 older brothers and four sisters