Derek Oliver Gladwin, Baron Gladwin of Clee

Derek Oliver Gladwin, Baron Gladwin of Clee , (born June 6, 1930 in Grimsby , Lincolnshire , † April 10, 2003 in Woking , Surrey ) was a British union official and member of the House of Lords . After graduating from school, Derek Gladwin worked from 1946 to 1952 for British Rail and as a dock worker in Grimsby. A newspaper ad brought him to the attention of Ruskin College , Oxford , where people like himself who had no higher education can receive formal higher education. Attending Ruskin College enabled Gladwin, whose father was already an active unionist, to become a union official in the UK's largest union, the GMB . From 1970 to 1990 he was head of the "Southern Region" of the GMB and from 1974 also headed one of the most important organizing committees of the annual trade union congress.

Gladwin remained connected to Ruskin College until his death. He was initially the representative of GMB on its Board of Directors and from 1974 to 1999 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors. In 2000 he was elected the first lifelong president of Ruskin College. From 1978 to 1986 he was visiting professor at Nuffield College , Oxford. In 1994 Derek Gladwin was inducted into the House of Lords as Life Peer Lord Gladwin of Clee , of Great Grimsby in the County of Humberside. After the Labor Party won the 1997 election, he was offered an official position in the House of Lords, which he declined because, as he said, he “prefers to work in the background”.

Derek Gladwin was married. The couple had a son.

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• Lord Gladwin of Clee , The Guardian , April 14, 2003, accessed October 23, 2013.

Publications

• Derek Oliver Gladwin at Hansard (English)