Tom Williamson, Baron Williamson, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Tom Williamson, Baron Williamson

British politician

Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1897

Date of Death: 27-Feb-1983

Profession: politician, trade unionist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Tom Williamson, Baron Williamson

  • Thomas Williamson, Baron Williamson, (2 September 1897 – 27 February 1983) was a trade unionist and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.Williamson was born in St.
  • Helens, Lancashire.
  • His father was a glassblower, and Tom began his career working in the office of his father's union, the National Amalgamated Union of Labour.
  • He became a full-time union delegate, and in 1924, when it became part of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers (NUGMW), he was appointed as a district secretary.
  • He became interested in politics at age 9, when his father took him to see Tom Mann speak.
  • During the First World War, he served with the Royal Engineers.He first foray into politics was serving on the Liverpool City Council from 1929–35.
  • At the 1945 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Brigg constituency in Lincolnshire.
  • He resigned his seat in 1948, and the resulting by-election was won by Labour's Lance Mallalieu.In 1937, he became the industrial officer of NUGMW, and served as its General Secretary from 1946–61.
  • He was also President of the Trades Union Congress from 1957 to 1958.
  • He was a founding member of the British Productivity Council.Williamson was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1950, and was knighted in 1956.Williamson was created a life peer on 15 May 1962, with the title Baron Williamson, of Ecccleston in the Borough of St.
  • Helens in the County Palatine of Lancaster.He died in a Cheshire nursing home in 1983, aged 85.
  • He was survived by his wife, Hilda Hartley, whom he married in 1925.
  • They had one daughter.

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