Editing Colin Jordan (section)

==Early life==
John Colin Campbell Jordan was born in Birmingham on 19 June 1923.{{Sfn|Macklin|2020|p=258}} The son of a lecturer, Percy Jordan, and a teacher, Bertha Jordan,{{sfn|Jackson|2016|p=6}} Jordan was educated at [[Warwick School]] from 1934 to 1942. During the [[Second World War]] he attempted to enlist in the [[Fleet Air Arm]] and the [[RAF]], but, after failing the tests for both, he enlisted in the [[Royal Army Educational Corps]].{{sfn|Walker|1977|p=27}} After being demobilised in 1946 he studied at [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]], graduating in 1949 with [[second class honours]] in history.<ref name="Gable">{{cite news |last=Gable |first=Garry |date=2009-04-13 |title=Colin Jordan: Key figure in the postwar British fascist movement |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/apr/13/obituary-colin-jordan |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> That same year he became a teacher at Stoke Secondary Modern Boys School, [[Coventry]],<ref name=":0" /> where he taught mathematics. In 1953, he received his [[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)|M.A.]] He joined the [[League of Empire Loyalists]] and became its [[Midlands]] organiser.{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|2002|pages=32-33}}

At [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] Jordan formed a Nationalist Club.<ref name="Times">{{cite news |date=2009-04-16 |title=Colin Jordan: leader of the far Right |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/colin-jordan-leader-of-the-far-right-sszs7959wbc |url-access=subscription |access-date=2017-11-09 |work=[[The Times]] |location=London |language=en-GB |issn=0140-0460}}</ref> Jordan soon became associated with [[Arnold Leese]] and was left the use of a house in Leese's will. This became the [[Notting Hill]]<ref name="Times"/> base of operations when Jordan launched the [[White Defence League]] in 1956.{{sfn|Sykes|2005|p=99}} Jordan later merged this party with the [[National Labour Party (UK, 1957)|National Labour Party]] to form the [[British National Party (1960)|British National Party]] in 1960,{{sfn|Sykes|2005|p=100}} although he split from it after a quarrel with [[John Bean (politician)|John Bean]], who was opposed to Jordan's advocacy of Nazism.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}