Clifford Lewis Tucker (December 18, 1912 - May 21, 1993) was a British industrial relations executive, magistrate and politician. 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... A magistrate is a judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. ...

He was educated at Monmouth School and St David's College, Lampeter. One of his first jobs after graduation was for Imperial Chemical Industries, but he moved, in 1946, to British Petroleum, and was loyal to that company until his retirement. Monmouth School is a gay public school for boys in Monmouth, South Wales. ... University of Wales, Lampeter Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan   University of Wales, Lampeter (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) is a university in Lampeter, Wales, the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, and the third oldest in England and Wales after Oxford and Cambridge. ... Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) is a British chemical company, based in London. ... This article is about the corporation known as BP. See also BP (disambiguation) BP (formerly British Petroleum and briefly known as BP Amoco) (NYSE: BP) is a petroleum company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. ...

From an early age, Tucker was involved with the British Labour Party and was elected successively as a Labour representative to the councils of Stepney, St Pancras and Camden. He was also a Justice of the Peace (JP) and from 1978 to 1981 he was deputy chair of the Inner London Magistrates. The Labour Party has since its formation in the early 20th century been the principal left wing political party of the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... The Metropolitan Borough of Stepney was between 1899 and 1965 a metropolitan borough in the County of London. ... The Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras was a metropolitan borough under London County Council between 1899 and 1965, when it was amalgated with the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead and the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn to form the London Borough of Camden. ... The London Borough of Camden is an inner-London borough created in 1965 to replace the metropolitan boroughs of Hampstead, Holborn, St Pancras. ... A Justice of the Peace (JP) is someone appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace. ...

His partner of 35 years was the famous gay-rights activist Anthony Edward Dyson. Dyson followed Tucker's wishes and bequeathed the proceeds of their Hampstead home to Tucker's alma mater, which had become the University of Wales, Lampeter. As such, there is now a scholarship for a Research Degree in History at the university named in Tucker's honour. In 1996, the construction of the new Cliff Tucker Lecture Theatre was also funded by the bequest, a public lecture series started in the Autumn of 2005, and a Dyson Fellowship in Poetry also launched that year. Anthony Edward Dyson (November 28, 1928 - July 30, 2002) was a British literary critic, university lecturer, and gay rights campaigner Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, his academic career began in 1955 when he was appointed as Assistant Lecturer in English Literature at the University of North Wales, Bangor. ... Hampstead is a place in the London Borough of Camden and near to Hampstead Heath. ... University of Wales, Lampeter Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan   University of Wales, Lampeter (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) is a university in Lampeter, Wales, the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, and the third oldest in England and Wales after Oxford and Cambridge. ... A scholarship is an award of access to an institution or a financial aid award for an individual (a scholar) for the purposes of furthering their education. ...