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Tony Kinder | |
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| Born | Anthony Kenneth Kinder[1] 1949 (age 76–77) |
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Tony Kinder (born 1949) is a Scottish lecturer, councillor and a previous director and chairman of professional football club Livingston.
Career
[edit]He was a senior lecturer in Business Studies at the University of Edinburgh.[2]
Kinder was a councillor in West Lothian until 1999. He quit his role with the Labour Party after accusing his colleagues of waging a campaign to discredit him.[3][4][5][6][7]
He was part of the Lionheart consortium, along with Pearse Flynn and Maurice Smith, that bought Livingston. Having served as a director, he became club chairman in June 2004.[8][9] He later gave evidence in the fraud trial of Dominic Keane in 2009.[10][11]
As of April 2025, Kinder is a professor at Tampere University.[12]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Anthony Kenneth KINDER". Companies House.
- ↑ "Fall-outs plagued Livi FC board duo". Daily Record. 20 August 2009.
- ↑ "Police in expenses probe as councillor quits". The Herald. 22 March 1995.
- ↑ "West Lothian councillor quits over 'allegations'". The Herald. 26 March 1999.
- ↑ "VICTORIOUS: Tony Kinder enjoyed a Labour win". Edinburgh Evening News. 4 May 1990.
- ↑ "Controversial councillor Tony Kinder tells the Journal and Gazette why he quit POINTING THE FINGER". Linlithgowshire Gazette. 2 April 1999.
- ↑ "The issue was then forwarded to the strategic services committee on Tuesday. Committee chairman Tony Kinder, ." Linlithgowshire Gazette. 19 April 1996.
- ↑ "New chief appoints Preston". BBC. 4 June 2004.
- ↑ "BETWEEN OURSELVES compiled by Vic Woobp". Linlithgowshire Gazette. 6 February 2004.
- ↑ "Fraud trial told of boardroom bust-up at Livingston FC". The Herald. 18 August 2009.
- ↑ "Focus: A Livingston nightmare". The Times. 30 August 2009.
- ↑ "Tony Kinder". Research Gate.