Edward Hill, Baron Hill of Wivenhoe

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Edward "Ted" James Hill, Baron Hill of Wivenhoe (* 20th August 1899 ; † 14. December 1969 ) was a British trade union functionary , who from 1948 to 1965 General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers was and in 1967 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Hill made after visiting the Napier Road School in East Ham during the First World War, his military service in the Royal Marines Engineers . After the end of the war, he began working as a boilermaker for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) and was already involved in the United Union of Boilermakers, Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths and Workers ( Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths) and Structural Workers ) (ASBSBSW). Together with Aneurin Bevan , he organized a nationwide hunger march in 1934 and was elected a member of the executive committee of the ASBSBSW for the London district in 1939.

After the end of World War II , Hill was elected Secretary General of ASBSBSW to succeed Mark Hodgson and held this position for 17 years until he was replaced by Danny McGarvey in 1965. In addition, also in 1948 at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the Umbrella organization of the British trade unions, in Margate his election as a member of the General Council of the TUC, of ​​which he was a member until 1965.

At the trade union convention of the TUC in 1961 in Portsmouth Hill was elected to succeed Claude Bartlett for a one-year term as President of the TUC and held this office until he was replaced by Anne Goodwin at the trade union day in Blackpool in 1962 . Between 1963 and 1965 he was also president of ASBSBSW and then gave up all union offices.

By a letters patent dated September 21, 1967, Hill was raised to the nobility under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Hill of Wivenhoe , of Wivenhoe in the County of Essex, and thus belonged to the House of until his death Lords as a member. His official introduction ( Introduction ) to the House of Lords took place with the support of Ernest Popplewell, Baron Popplewell and Billy Blyton, Baron Blyton .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TUC: Details of Past Congresses ( Memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (archive version; PDF; 34 kB)
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 44378, HMSO, London, August 1, 1967, p. 8533 ( PDF , accessed September 18, 2013, English).
  3. ↑ Blue Blood of England "Invaded" . In: Reading Eagle, December 24, 1967
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Edward, Baron Hill of Wivenhoe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hill, Edward, Baron Hill Of Wivenhoe (full name); Hill, Ted (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British union official
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1899
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1969