Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde

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Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde , PC ( April 29, 1943 - March 13, 2018 ) was a British trade unionist and politician .

Life

Dean became involved in the union SOGAT (Society of Graphical and Allied Trades) from 1959 , of which she was president from 1983 to 1985 and which she then headed as general secretary until 1991.

In 1992 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was promoted to the status of a Life Peer the following year . Since then she has officially carried the title of Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, of Eccles in the County of Greater Manchester and sat for the Labor Party in the British House of Lords .

In 1998 she was appointed Privy Counselor .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile on news.bbc.org accessed on November 29, 2012.
  2. ^ Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde , parliament.uk, accessed March 13, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
  4. ↑ Portrait on debretts.com ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on November 29, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.debretts.com
  5. ↑ Portrait on parliament.uk, accessed on November 29, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Dean, Brenda, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British trade unionist, Life Peer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1943
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 2018