Rodney Kevan Bickerstaffe was born on 6 April 1945 in Hammersmith.
He was the General Secretary of National Union of Public Employees from 1982 to 1993 and of UNISON from 1996 to 2001. He died from cancer of the oesophagus, aged 72 years, on 3 October 2017, at the Marie Curie Hospice in Camden.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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Rodney Bickerstaffe
Planted on 13th October 1989 to celebrate a hundred years of caring in the pu...
Co-churchwarden of St Peter and St Matthew Friday Street in 1712.
Educationalist and writer. Born Cincinnati, Ohio. She came to Britain in 1948 to study at Oxford. There she met Tony Benn, who became her husband. An advocate of comprehensive education, she co-fou...
Person, Education, Literature, Politics & Administration, USA
Director of Lady Workers' Homes Ltd in 1936. The initials "R. M." are almost certainly her husband's.
Sportsman and profligate bon vivant, a life-style enabled through his vast inherited wealth. President of the National Sporting Club. Initiated the boxing prize, the Lonsdale Belt. Founder and firs...
Elected Guardian of the Lewisham Union - Lewisham in 1894.
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