Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Feather | |
Office: | President of the European Trade Union Confederation |
Term Start: | 1973 |
Term End: | 1974 |
Predecessor: | Heinz Oskar Vetter |
Successor: | Heinz Oskar Vetter |
Office2: | General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress |
Term Start2: | 26 February 1969 |
Term End2: | 7 September 19731 |
Predecessor2: | George Woodcock |
Successor2: | Len Murray |
Office3: | Assistant General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress |
Term Start3: | 1960 |
Term End3: | 1969 |
1Namedata3: | George Woodcock |
Predecessor3: | George Woodcock |
Successor3: | Len Murray |
Birth Place: | Idle, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
Footnotes: | 1 Acting from 26 February 1969 to 2 September 1969 |
Victor Grayson Hardie Feather, Baron Feather, (10 April 1908 - 28 July 1976) was a British trades unionist and General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress in Great Britain from 1969 to 1973.
Feather was born in Idle, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1908, and was named after the recently elected socialist MP Victor Grayson. He was educated at Hanson Grammar School in Bradford. He began work at age 14 and joined the Shopworkers' Union. He was elected shop steward at age 15, and chairman of his branch committee at age 21. In the 1920’s he worked for Frank Betts (father of future Labour UK Employment Secretary Barbara Castle MP) as a journalist and cartoonist for ‘The Bradford Pioneer’.