Richard Briginshaw, Baron Briginshaw

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Richard William Briginshaw, Baron Briginshaw (* 15. May 1908 in Brixton , London ; † 27. March 1992 in Croydon , London) was a British trade union functionary , who for 24 years secretary general of the printers union NATSOPA ( National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants ) and in 1975 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Briginshaw, who came from a working class family, left school in 1922 at the age of fourteen and then worked as an apprentice in a printing company . During this time, his later political attitudes were shaped by the poor living conditions in the south London district of Brixton, even if his own family was doing comparatively well. In addition to his subsequent work as a machinist in the printing works of various daily newspapers , he attended evening school and then completed a degree in law and economics at University College London (UCL).

Briginshaw became involved in the union at an early stage and in 1938 became assistant secretary of the London office of the printing union NATSOPA ( National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants ), but became a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) as well as the organizer of NATSOPA because of his communist views Communist Front designated anti-fascist printing movement sacked.

During the Second World War he joined the British Army in 1941 and did his military service in British India , the Middle East and Western Europe . After the end of the war he left the CPGB, became a member of the Labor Party and took on various functions within NATSOPA.

In 1951 Briginshaw succeeded Harry Good as general secretary of the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants (NATSOPA ) printers' union and held that position for 24 years until he was replaced by Owen O'Brien in 1975. During his tenure, the membership increased from 29,500 im Year 1945 to around 43,500 in 1960. In 1966 NATSOPA merged with the National Union of Printers , Bookbinders and Paper Workers NUPBW ( National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers ) to form the union of the graphic and related trades SOGAT ( Society of Graphical and Allied Trades ). Due to disputes over a common statute, the two unions split again.

For his many years of service Briginshaw was a Letters Patent of 16 January 1975 as a Life Peer with the title Baron Briginshaw , of Southwark in the County of Greater London, the nobility collected and owned up to his death in the House of Lords as a member . Its official introduction ( Introduction ) took place on February 11, 1975 with the support of John Jacques, Baron Jacques and Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett .

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  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 46472, HMSO, London, January 21, 1975, p. 885 ( PDF , accessed November 2, 2013, English).
  2. ^ Entry in the Hansard (February 11, 1975)
personal data
SURNAME Briginshaw, Richard, Baron Briginshaw
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Briginshaw, Richard William, Baron Briginshaw (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British union official
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Brixton , London
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1992
Place of death Croydon , London