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Encyclopedia > Lionel Murray

Lionel Murray, Baron Murray of Epping Forest, PC, known as Len Murray (August 2, 1922 - May 20, 2004) was a British Labour politician and union leader.


He was a Trades Union Congress (TUC) employee from 1947, and became assistant general secretary in 1969. He was made General Secretary (leader) of the Trades Union Congress in 1973, and led the group during the time of the Winter of Discontent, and of confrontations with Margaret Thatcher's government.


He retired in 1984, three years early. He had been made a member of the Privy Council in 1976 and was made a life peer in 1985. He died in hospital in 2004 from emphysema and pneumonia.

Preceded by:
Vic Feather
General Secretary of the TUC Succeeded by:
Norman Willis

External links

  • News of Lord Murray's passing (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/unions/story/0,12189,1221707,00.html) (The Guardian)
  • Obituary of Lord Murray (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/22/db2201.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/05/22/ixportal.html) (Daily Telegraph)

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Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Obituary: Lord Murray (1738 words)
Murray was one of those conscientious, quiet TUC bureaucrats who do excellent, unsung work in committees and are then pitched forward into the top job by virtue of the Buggins' turn system which operates at Congress House.
Murray's clear vision of what the unions were about was for the main part clouded by his inability to put it into practice.
Murray stood in their shadow, biding his time and waiting for their departure, so that he might be able to impress more of his own stamp on the movement once they had gone.
Auch2000-the Earl of Dysart (1527 words)
Lionel Talmash was sheriff in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, in the 4th and 8th year of the reign of Henry VIII.
Sir Lionel Talmash(son of Lionel) inherited Mottram manors and Tintwistle manor and the title "Lordship of Longdendale." He was the first earl and Knight of the Shire in 1689; and parliament of Suffolk County, lord lieutenant during the first year of Queen Anne and vice-admiral for Suffolk.
Lionel Talmash, 4th earl of Dysart (1707-1770), and 2nd earl of Longendale, was born June 1707, and upon his grandfather's death, in 1726, became earl of Dysart, and Knight of the Thistle.
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