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John Tyndall (1934–2005) was one of the most important figures of the British postwar nationalist movement.

He first entered politics through Arthur K. Chesterton‘s League of Empire Loyalists (LEL) in the mid-1950s. He found it insufficiently radical and left to establish National Labour Party (NLP) with John Bean in 1957. When The NLP merged with Colin Jordan‘s White Defence League in 1960 to create the first organization called the British National Party. Tyndall subsequently joined it and became deputy national organizer.

In 1962, after his break with the first BNP, Tyndall established the National Socialist Movement (NSM) with Colin Jordan. At the 1962 Cotswold conference, Tyndall, along with Jordan, George Lincoln Rockwell and other National Socialists, established the World Union of National Socialists (WUNS). Tyndall was included among its formal officers and initially served as Deputy International Secretary.

In 1964 Tyndall broke with Jordan and founded the Greater Britain Movement (GBM). Around this time Tyndall founded  several media projects, including Spearhead magazine and it’s publishing house Albion Press. The magazine was one of the longest-running publications associated with the British nationalist movement, which ran until Tyndall’s death in 2005.

Tyndall would go on to join the National Front (NF), becoming the organization’s vice chairman and then, chairman, from 1972-1980. During this period, the NF experienced its greatest electoral visibility and membership growth. After losing the internal struggle within the NF, Tyndall established the New National Front (NNF) in June of 1980.

In January 1982 Tyndall and associates established the Committee for Nationalist Unity (CNU) as an umbrella mechanism to bring various small British nationalist groups together. Following the CNU’s March 1982 conference, the various organizations agreed to establish the new British National Party (BNP). He served as a chairman and leader of the organization until losing the position to Nick Griffin.

Tyndall died of heart failure on July 19, 2005, at the age of 71, at his flat in Hove, East Sussex.