Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde

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The Right Honourable
The Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde
PC
Personal details
Born (1943-04-29) 29 April 1943 (age 81)
Salford, England, UK
Nationality British
Political party Labour
Spouse(s) Keith McDowall (CBE)[1]
Occupation Peer
Trade unionist

Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde PC, FRSA (born 29 April 1943)[2] is a British trade unionist and politician.[3]

She began her career as a trade unionist as a teenager,[3] becoming President of the print union SOGAT in 1983, and was its General Secretary between 1985 and 1991.[1]

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1992. Dean was created a life peer in October 1993 as Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde of Eccles in the County of Greater Manchester,[1] and a Privy Councillor in 1998.[2] She was a member of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education that published an influential report in 1997.[4]

Her autobiography, Hot Mettle, deals largely with her tenure as SOGAT General Secretary at the time of Rupert Murdoch's battles with her own and other trades unions. She is a Vice-President of the Debating Group.[5]

References

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  5. Debating Group, debatinggroup.org.uk; accessed 21 May 2015.

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Political offices
Preceded by General Secretary of SOGAT
1985–1992
Succeeded by
Position abolished

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