Editing Neil Kinnock (section)

==Early life==
Kinnock, an only child, was born in [[Tredegar]], [[Wales]] on Saturday, 28 March 1942.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/halloffame/public_life/neil_kinnock.shtml |title=South East Wales Public Life – Neil Kinnock – Labour politician from Tredegar |publisher=BBC |date=28 March 1942 |access-date=6 April 2012 |archive-date=17 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117060127/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/halloffame/public_life/neil_kinnock.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref> His father, Gordon Herbert Kinnock was a former [[coal miner]] who later worked as a labourer; and his mother Mary Kinnock (née Howells) was a district nurse.<ref name="Wilsford1995">{{cite book|first=David |last=Wilsford|title=Political leaders of contemporary Western Europe: a biographical dictionary|url=https://archive.org/details/politicalleaders00wils|url-access=registration |access-date=2 October 2011|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28623-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/politicalleaders00wils/page/236 236]}}</ref><ref name="DavisHerrmann1982">{{cite book|first1=Hunter |last1=Davis|first2=Frank |last2=Herrmann|title=Great Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eaYaAQAAMAAJ|access-date=2 October 2011|date=July 1982|publisher=H. Hamilton|page=173|isbn=9780241107553}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Papers of Neil Kinnock|url=https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1673|access-date=18 October 2021|archive-date=18 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018143332/https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1673|url-status=live}}</ref> Gordon died of a [[heart attack]] in November 1971 aged 64;<ref name="Jones1994">{{cite book|first=Eileen |last=Jones|title=Neil Kinnock|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zn1nAAAAMAAJ|access-date=2 October 2011|date=29 April 1994|publisher=Hale|isbn=978-0-7090-5239-5|page=29}}</ref> Mary died the following month aged 61.<ref name="Jones1994"/>

In 1953, at eleven years old, Kinnock began his [[secondary education]] at [[Lewis School, Pengam]], which he later criticised for its record on [[School corporal punishment|caning]]. He went on to the [[University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire]] in Cardiff (now Cardiff University), where he graduated in 1965 with a degree in Industrial Relations and History. The following year, Kinnock obtained a postgraduate diploma in education. Between August 1966 and May 1970, he worked as a tutor for a [[Workers' Educational Association]] (WEA).<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3044134.stm | work=BBC News | first=Mark | last=Davies | title=Profile: Neil Kinnock | date=4 July 2003 | access-date=13 September 2011 | archive-date=4 April 2004 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040404094458/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3044134.stm | url-status=live }}</ref>

He married [[Glenys Kinnock]] in 1967. They have two children – son [[Stephen Kinnock]] (born January 1970, now a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] MP), and daughter Rachel Nerys Helen Kinnock (born 11 December 1971).<Ref>South Wales Argus
Mon, 13 Dec 1971 ·Page 1</ref><ref>[https://www.thefreelibrary.com/KINNOCK+IS+LEADER+AT+HIS+RACHEL'S+WEDDING+PARTY%3B+Big+day+for+Neil's...-a076682244 "Kinnock is Leader at his Rachel's Wedding Party"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510092027/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/KINNOCK+IS+LEADER+AT+HIS+RACHEL%27S+WEDDING+PARTY%3B+Big+day+for+Neil%27s...-a076682244 |date=10 May 2017 }}, ''Sunday Mirror'', 22 July 2001.</ref> Glenys died on 3 December 2023.