Danny McGarvey

Sir Daniel McGarvey, CBE (16 September 1919 – 26 April 1977) was a British trade unionist.

For the American baseball player, see Dan McGarvey.

McGarvey was born in Clydebank and attended Our Holy Redeemer School, then St Patrick's High School, Dumbarton.[1] At the age of fifteen, he began working as an apprentice caulker.[2]

He became active in the United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders, being elected to its general council in 1951, and in 1954 to the executive council of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions. From 1958-65, he served on the National Executive Council of the Labour Party. In 1964, he was elected as General Secretary of the renamed Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers.[1]

In 1965, he was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and he became the President of the TUC in 1976, but died the following April, before completing his term.[1][3]

Honours

McGarvey received the CBE in 1970, and was knighted shortly before his death.[1]

References
  1. "McGARVEY, Sir Daniel", Who Was Who
  2. Robert Taylor, The Fifth Estate: Britain's Unions in the Seventies, p. 310
  3. John Kerr, "Sir Daniel McGarvey - 'boots' to union boss", The Guardian, 27 April 1977, p. 3: "McGarvey died in office."
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