Alfred Allen, Baron Allen of Fallowfield
Alfred Walter Henry Allen, Baron Allen of Fallowfield CBE (7 July 1914 – 14 January 1985)[1] was a British unionist and governor of the BBC.
Born in Bristol, he was educated at East Bristol School and worked then for the Bristol Co-operative Society until 1940, when he joined the Royal Air Force.[2] After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Allen left the Force as a sergeant and was chosen an area organiser of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers in the year thereafter.[2] Following its merger into the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers in 1947, he became a national officer in 1951.[2] Allen was elected the Union's general secretary in 1962, a post he held for seventeen years until 1979.[3] In the 1967 Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).[4]
Allen was a member of the general council of the Trades Union Congress and in 1974 was nominated its president.[5] On 10 July of the latter year, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Allen of Fallowfield, of Fallowfield, in Greater Manchester.[6] In 1977, Allen served in the Board of Governors of the BBC.[7]
In 1940, he married Ruby Millicent Hounsell and had by her a son and a daughter.[2]
References
- ↑ "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Retrieved 12 November 2009.
- 1 2 3 4 Who Is Who 1963. London: Adam & Charles Black. 1963. p. 42.
- ↑ Taylor, Robert (1980). The Fifth Estate: Britain's Unions in the Modern World. Pan. p. 396. ISBN 0-330-25943-1.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 44326. p. 6277. 44326. Retrieved 12 November 2009.
- ↑ McIntosh, Sir Ronald (2006). Challenge to Democracy: Politics, Trade Union Power and Economic Failure in the 1970s. Politico's. p. 133. ISBN 1-84275-157-3.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 46352. p. 7918. 24 September 1974. Retrieved 12 November 2009.
- ↑ "BBC, Official Website - History of the BBC" (PDF). Retrieved 12 November 2009.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Alfred Allen, Baron Allen of Fallowfield
| Trade union offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Alan Birch |
General Secretary of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers 1962 – 1979 |
Succeeded by Bill Whatley |
| Preceded by Joseph Crawford |
President of the Trades Union Congress 1974 |
Succeeded by Marie Patterson |
| Preceded by L. F. Edmondson and Cyril Plant |
Trades Union Congress representative to the AFL-CIO 1979 |
Succeeded by Thomas Jackson |