Frank Chapple, Baron Chapple of Hoxton

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Francis Joseph Chapple, Baron Chapple of Hoxton (born August 28, 1921 in London , † October 19, 2004 in Maidstone ) was a British trade unionist and life peer .

Life

Chapple grew up in poor circumstances in the London borough of Hoxton , where his father owned a small shoe repair shop. At the age of 14 he left school and took on unskilled jobs for an electrical company. In 1937 he became a member of the Electrical Trade Union (ETU), two years later he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain . During the Second World War he first served in the British ammunition factories before being stationed in France and Germany later in the war, where he was entrusted with tank maintenance work.

At a congress of the World Federation of Democratic Youth in Prague in 1947, he met the later ETU President Leslie Cannon , with whom he was a close friend. In the following years, Chapple increasingly distanced himself from the communist union leadership. From 1957 he sat on the executive council of the ETU. In 1959 he left the Communist Party and became a member of the Labor Party . In 1966 he became general secretary of the ETU, and from 1970 he also held the office of president. In the same year he became a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress , of which he was elected President in 1982. In 1981 he moved from the Labor Party to the camp of the newly founded Social Democratic Party . In 1984 he resigned from his trade union office and retired. In the same year his Sparks Fly! titled autobiography.

Chapple was raised to the status of a Life Peer in 1985 and has since been officially named Baron Chapple, of Hoxton in Greater London .

He was married twice: from 1944 to her death in 1994 with Joan Nicholls and since 1999 with Phyllis Luck . He had two children from his first marriage.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Obituary on independent.co.uk, accessed on February 8, 2015
  2. ^ Obituary on theguardian.com accessed on February 8, 2015
  3. ^ Francis Joseph Chapple, Baron Chapple on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Chapple, Frank, Baron Chapple of Hoxton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chapple, Francis Joseph, Baron Chapple of Hoxton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British trade unionist, Life Peer
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 2004
Place of death Maidstone