First name/s: Clive
Last name: Webster
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Year of birth: 1941
Life before Ruskin
Date and place of birth: Batley, West Yorkshire
Family:
Work: Left school at 16, worked in Thornhill Pit, Yorkshire Coalfields. Soon became a shot-firer using explosives to open up coal seams.
Politics/Trade union activity: National Union of Miners
Trade Union membership (at time of entry to Ruskin) NUM
Life at Ruskin
Dates at Ruskin: 1967
Source of funding: NUM Scholarship
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Subjects studied at Ruskin: Politics
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Life after Ruskin
Education:
Work: Adult Education Teacher at Wakefield College
Politics/trade union activity: National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education
Family: 1981 married to June, they had two children Andrew and Sally and later seven grandchildren
Place & date of death: 10th May 2011 aged 69
Date of death: 10/05/2011
Year of death: 2011
Achievements / Publications
Helped establish Trade Union Studies Centre at Wakefield College
1981-1986 Served as member of West Yorkshire County Council until it was abolished by Conservative government
1989 Appointed General Secretary of Leeds Permanent Building Society Staff Association
1995-2011 Deputy General Secretary of Independent Union of Halifax Staff – now Accord (on Halifax Merger with Bank of Scotland)
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Above information sourced on-line:
Photographs, order of service, eulogy and obituary by Ged Nichols (fellow Accord trade unionist), book of condolences, video of celebration of his life at TUC Congress House on 7th July 2011 and document with photos and list of achievements “A life in pictures”
Mention of death of Clive Webster in Labour Research June 2011 under “union news”.
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Denise Pakeman