Lennox Fyfe, Baron Fyfe of Fairfield, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lennox Fyfe, Baron Fyfe of Fairfield

British politician

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1941

Date of Death: 01-Feb-2011

Profession: businessperson, politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Lennox Fyfe, Baron Fyfe of Fairfield

  • George Lennox ("Len") Fyfe, Baron Fyfe of Fairfield (10 April 1941 – 1 February 2011) was a British politician and life peer who sat as a Labour member of the House of Lords.
  • Fyfe was born at Sauchie, Clackmannanshire, the son of George Lennox Fyfe and Elizabeth Struthers Fyfe.
  • He was educated at Alloa Academy and Co-operative College, Loughborough.
  • Fyfe made his career in the Co-operative movement, initially in Scotland; he was general manager of the Kirriemuir Co-operative Society from 1966 to 1968, and regional manager of the Scottish Co-operative Society from 1968 to 1972.
  • He was group general manager of the Co-operative Wholesale Society from 1972 to 1975.
  • He served as Chief Executive of the Leicestershire Co-operative Society from 1975 to 1995, and, following a merger, held the same position at the Midlands Co-operative Society until 2000.
  • He was a member of the East Midlands Economic Planning Council from 1976 to 1979.
  • Fyfe served variously as director, deputy chairman or chairman of many co-operative businesses from the early 1980s onwards, including Shoefayre, Co-operative Wholesale Society, Co-operative Insurance Society, The Co-operative Bank and Unity Trust Bank.
  • He was also a member of the central committee of the International Co-operative Alliance and served as president of the Co-operative Congress in 2001.
  • He was created a life peer on 16 May 2000 as Baron Fyfe of Fairfield, of Sauchie in Clackmannanshire.
  • In the House of Lords he was a member of the European Union Committee, sitting on sub-committees on Environment, Agriculture, Public Health and Consumer Protection until 2003, and on the Internal Market from 2005 until his death.
  • Fyfe served as a Justice of the Peace for Perthshire from 1972 to 1975.
  • He was also director of Central Television from 1983 to 1992, and a member of the court of Leicester University. Lennox Fyfe married Ann Clark in 1965; she died in 1999.
  • The couple had a son (deceased) and a daughter.

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