John Gallacher

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John Gallacher, Baron Gallacher (born May 7, 1920 in Alexandria ( West Dunbartonshire ), † January 4, 2004 in Folkestone ( Kent )) was a British cooperative and politician.

Life

John Gallacher graduated from St. Patrick's High School in Dumbarton and worked for the Vale of Leven Co-operative Society prior to World War II . He served in the Royal Air Force and then interned with the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society (SCWS) in Glasgow . In 1947 he married Freda Chittenden, whom he had met during the Second World War while they were serving in the Royal Air Force and with whom he had a son.

Equipped with a scholarship from the SCWS, Gallacher was sent to the Co-operative College in Loughborough for two years in 1949 and obtained the diploma of a cooperative secretary. He then worked as Assistant Education Secretary at the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society , a South London-based consumer cooperative , and then moved to the Enfield Highway Co-operative Society as Education Secretary . He then worked as secretary of the southern section of the Co-operative Union , left it briefly to work as a labor adviser to the Motor Agents Association, and then returned to Co-operative Union. After serving as an administrative officer of the International Co-operative Alliance , he became Parliamentary Secretary of the Co-operative Union in 1973 and won parliamentary support for this movement.

At the suggestion of Lord Jacques , John Gallacher was raised to Life Peer on March 28, 1983 with the title Baron Gallacher, of Enfield in Greater London . He now had his seat as a Labor Co-operative Peer, representing the interests of Labor and the Co-operative Party , and acted from 1985 to 1992 as a Labor Whip ("whip") in the House of Lords . Among other things, he devoted himself to European topics. From 1983 to 1986 he was also President of the Institute of Meat . He died on January 4, 2004 at the age of 83.

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d Lord Gallacher of Enfield, stalwart of Co-operative movement , The Scotsman , February 11, 2004.
  2. ↑ Malcolm Hurlston, Obituary , in: The Independent, January 9, 2004.
  3. ^ A b c E. Graham, "Peers of the Past," The Co-operative News , May 27, 2008.
  4. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages - Peerages beginning with the letter "G" (Part 1) .
personal data
SURNAME Gallacher, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gallacher, John, Baron Gallacher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cooperative and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 2004
Place of death Folkestone , Kent