Len Murray
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Lionel Murray, Baron Murray of Epping Forest, OBE PC, known as Len Murray (August 2, 1922 - May 20, 2004) was a British Labour politician and union leader.
Murray was commissioned into the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in April 1943 and landed on the Normandy beaches on D-Day. Six days later he was badly wounded and in October 1944 he was invalided out of the Army with the rank of Lieutenant. 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 as Baron Murray of Epping Forest, of Telford in the County of Shropshire in 1985. He died in hospital in 2004 from emphysema and pneumonia.
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| Preceded by Vic Feather |
General Secretary of the TUC 1973–1984 |
Succeeded by Norman Willis |
