Lewis Wright, Baron Wright of Ashton-under-Lyne

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Lewis Tatham Wright, Baron Wright of Ashton-under-Lyne CBE (birth name: Lewis Tatham Styles * 11. October 1903 ; † 15. September 1974 ) was a British trade union functionary and politician of the Labor Party , which from 1953 to 1968 Secretary General of the textile workers union Amalgamated Weavers' Association was and 1968 as a Life peer due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Lewis worked as a textile worker and later served more than forty years as an official in the Amalgamated Weavers' Association . In 1953 he succeeded Andrew Naesmith as Secretary General of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association and held this position for fifteen years until he was replaced by Harry Kershaw in 1968. On January 1, 1964, he was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE).

By a letters patent dated January 22, 1968 Wright was raised to the nobility and under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Wright of Ashton-under-Lyne , of Ashton-under-Lyne in the County Palatine of Lancaster belonged to the House of Lords as a member until his death. Its official introduction ( Introduction ) took place on February 7, 1968 with the assistance of Jack Cooper, Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath and William Carron, Baron Carron , both of whom were also long-time union officials.

At the 1968 TUC trade union convention in Blackpool , Wright was elected as the successor to Harry Douglass, Baron Douglass of Cleveland, for a one-year term as President of the TUC and held this office until he was replaced by John E. Newton at the 1969 trade union convention in Portsmouth . He was then President of the Textile Institute in Manchester between 1969 and 1970 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43200, HMSO, London, January 1, 1964, p. 11 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 44484, HMSO, London, December 29, 1967, p. 1 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  3. ^ Entry in Hansard dated February 7, 1968
  4. ^ TUC: Details of Past Congresses ( Memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Lord Wright President: 1969-70 . In: Textile Institute & Industry , May1969, Vol. 7 Issue 5, p. 119
personal data
SURNAME Wright, Lewis, Baron Wright of Ashton-under-Lyne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wright, Lewis Tatham, Baron Wright of Ashton-under-Lyne (full name); Styles, Lewis Tatham (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British trade union official and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1903
DATE OF DEATH 15th September 1974