National and Local Government Officers Association
This is the story of the National and Local Government Officers Association (NALGO), formerly known as the National Association of Local Government Officers.
Few trade unions can have been launched with quite such eminent support as the National Association of Local Government Officers. While others emerged from victimisation and struggle, NALGO could boast the town clerk of Liverpool as its first president, while among the ranks of its vice-presidents were Sir Homewood Crawford, solicitor to the City of London Corporation, the Earl of Derby, Neville Chamberlain and the knighted presidents of the local authority and professional institutes.
Without one man, however, NALGO might never have been born. Herbert Blain, the Liverpool-born local authority clerk who would go on to manage London Underground and become principal agent for the Conservative Party in the period covering the General Strike, had first launched himself into the project of local government organisation in 1896, when he founded the Liverpool Municipal Officers’ Guild. Although there had been earlier attempts to create a body to represent local government officers, this was the first which sought to include all grades from the town clerk to the office boy.
The energetic Blain succeeded in co-opting Sir William Forwood, an eminent former mayor of the city, and E R Pickmere, the town clerk, to hold honorary positions in the guild, and set about creating a highly successful friendly society with some 1,200 members and a track record of organising ambitious social events, including such delights as an eight-day trip to Paris and day trips to Llandudno for up to 2,000 members, their friends and families.Watch Full Movie Online Streaming Online and Download
Blain sought to export his idea to other towns, and within four years similar organisations were active in Hull , Derby , Oldham, Tunbridge Wells, Poplar, Macclesfield, Belfast and in the Midlands , where one guild covered a number of local authorities. The chance to go national came in 1902, when the struggling London Municipal Officers Association approached Blain with proposal to join forces.
Although the plan foundered on the question of subscription fees, Blain was not deterred. In 1903, he left Liverpool to become manager of the new tramways department at West Ham. Blain joined the London Municipal Officers Association and succeeded in reviving its fortunes along the lines of his earlier guild, just as it was on the point of collapse. In July 1905, Blain’s efforts led to a conference at the Inns of Court Hotel, High Holborn, at which 14 representatives of local guilds and other organisations, such as the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers, agreed to create a National Association of Local Government Officers. The new body could boast some 5,000 members.
With Blain as chairman and Frank Ginn, assistant surveyor of Woodford and secretary of the Municipal Officers Association, as secretary, the new NALGO soon had a national executive up and running. Its members were from the founding guilds, plus those of West Ham, Ilford and Bradford. They were joined by representatives of the Sanitary Inspectors Association and the Urban Council Clerks’ Association.
NALGO’s federal constitution meant that much of the activity of its early years was local – and of a social nature. However, as early as 1905, Jabez Darricotte, editor of the Bolton guild journal, proposed a mutual insurance fund which would pay a small sum to the widows and families of local government officers who died in service. By 1910, this idea had been adopted nationally, leading to the creation of a Benevolent and Orphan Fund.
At Blain’s instigation, NALGO also entered into a contract with the firm of Hodgetts Ltd to endorse a magazine now to be known as The Local Government Officer and Contractor as the union’s official journal – a small but significant step towards giving NALGO’s locally focused membership a national orientation. Although neither the contract nor the journal lasted long, the principal had been established, and NALGO would continue to have a national voice.
However, the idea that NALGO was a trade union was anathema to its membership. Writing in the association’s journal in September 1910, L C Hill, its general secretary, declared: “Anything savouring of trade unionism is nausea to the local government officer and his Association.” This was not only the outcome of having a leadership drawn almost entirely from the ranks of local authority chief officers, but also the result of ordinary members’ widely held view that they were the social superiors of the sort of workers who joined unions.
By the close of the first world war, this attitude was no longer sustainable. Faced with competition for members from more militant organisations, and aware of the clamour to do more to protect their living standards, NALGO’s leadership sought ways of increasing its influence without having to become a trade union or, worse still, engage with the new Labour Party. Among the ideas mooted were a “Triple Alliance” of NALGO, the National Union of Teachers and the Poor Law Officers Association, and proposals to run NALGO parliamentary candidates.
The continued rejection of a move to trade unionism at NALGO’s conference in 1919 created a crisis. One third of the 650 members of the Hull branch joined the rival Municipal Employees Association. When new Labour councils across the country announced that in future they would employ only union members, the leaders of other branches seceded to the Workers Union. This feeling that NALGO and its leadership was too timid was particularly strong among returning servicemen, who came back from the trenches to find that the opportunities for advancement in local government that they had foregone had been taken up by the very same people who now wanted to prevent them fighting wholeheartedly for better working conditions.
At this point, and faced with the threat from many branches at NALGO’s conference on 31 January 1920 that their members would resign on mass if they continued to oppose trade unionism, the conservative leadership changed its policy. In due course, and after bitter wrangling over the precise nature of its conversion, NALGO sought a certificate from the Registrar of Friendly Societies confirming its status as a trade union, and the rot was halted. Despite a handful of defections, by the end of the year membership had risen by nearly 8,000 to 36,500.
The obvious next step was affiliation to the Trades Union Congress, and discussion of this duly began as early as 1921. However, it would take until 1964 for affiliation to be agreed. In the meantime, NALGO continued to grow. By 1946 it was the eighth largest trade union with nearly 140,000 members. That same year, the union changed its constitution to enable it to recruit employees in other public services such as the NHS and the electricity and gas boards. Six years later, in 1952, it was renamed the National and Local Government Officers Association (though it would continue to refer to itself as NALGO).
Over the years, NALGO moved a long way from its friendly society roots. In 1970, it sanctioned its first strike, and by the 1980s would be known as a stronghold of militant public sector trade unionism. However, in common with other unions, it was badly affected by the anti-trade union laws enacted by Conservative governments in that decade, and sought strength through merger with its two biggest rivals – the National Union of Public Employees and the Confederation of Health Service Employees.
In 1993, the three unions joined forces to create Unison.
Sources and notes
Books
Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol 1, Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan (Gower, 1980).
White Collar Union: Sixty Years of NALGO , Alec Spoor (Heinemann, 1967).
Facing up to Thatcherism: The History of NALGO 1979-93, Michael Ironside and Roger Seifert (Oxford University Press, 2001).
Further information
Papers of the National And Local Government Officers Association, Modern Records Centre, Warwick University (external link).
Presidents of NALGO
Year | Name | Employed as… |
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1906-07 | E R Pickmere | Town Clerk of Liverpool |
1907-24 | Sir Homewood Crawford | Solicitor to the City of London Corporation |
1924-31 | Arthur P Johnson | Town Clerk of Hampstead (knighted 1932) |
1931-32 | Sam Lord | Borough Treasurer of Acton |
1932-33 | F Marsden | City Engineer and Surveyor, Bradford |
1933-34 | C G Brown | Town Clerk of Cardiff |
1934-35 | Dr A Wotherspoon | Medical Officer of Health, Stoke-on-Trent |
1935-36 | G W Coster | Clerk to the West Derby Assessment Committee, Liverpool |
1936-37 | W E Lloyd | Borough Treasurer, Hampstead |
1937-38 | W W Armitage | Principal Assistant, Water Department, Sheffield |
1938-39 | J L Holland | Secretary of Education, Northampton County Council |
1939-43 | E J Stead | County Surveyor, Somerset |
1943-44 | C A W Roberts OBE | Manager of Walton Hospital, Liverpool |
1944-45 | A A Garrard OBE | Assistant Secretary to the Education Committee, East Ham |
1945-46 | F H Harrod CBE | Director of Education, Coventry |
1946-47 | D J Parry CBE | Clerk to Glamorgan County Council |
1947-48 | C J Newman OBE | Town Clerk of Exeter |
1948-49 | P H Harrold OBE | Town Clerk of Hampstead |
1949-50 | E A S Young | Assistant Director of Education, Willesden |
1950-51 | E L Riley | Establishment Officer, Liverpool |
1951-52 | L Bevan | Clerk and Steward, Hensol Castle Mental Deficiency Colony, Pontyclun, Glamorgan |
1952-53 | W Strother | Borough Engineer and Surveyor, Bethnal Green |
1953-54 | T Nolan | Accountant to the Leeds sub-area of the Yorkshire Electricity Board |
1954-55 | L H Taylor | Chief Administrative Assistant in the Town Clerk’s Department, Salford |
1955-56 | P H Harrold OBE | Town Clerk of Hampstead |
1956-57 | J Pepper | Establishment Officer, East Midlands Electricity Board |
1957-58 | A E Odell | Deputy Town Clerk of Poplar |
1958-59 | A E Nortrop | Deputy Borough Education Officer, Luton |
1959-60 | N W Bingham | Chief Clerk, Children’s Department, Kent County Council |
1960-61 | G T Belton | Deputy Clerk to Basford Rural District Council |
1961-62 | R Evans | Clerk to Blackwell Rural District Council |
1962-63 | G R Ashton MBE | Clerk and Chief Financial Officer to Keynsham Urban District Council |
1963-64 | L W G Hetherington | District Commercial Engineer, London Electricity Board |
1964-65 | C A Smallman MBE | Senior Welfare Officer, Birmingham |
1965-66 | S Duncan | County Publicity Officer, Lancashire |
1966-67 | Miss M W Curtin | Matron, Moxley Hospital, Wednesbury |
General Secretaries of NALGO
Years | Name | Previous career |
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1905-09 | Frank E Ginn | Assistant Surveyor, Woodford UDC (Honorary) |
1909-43 | Levi Clement Hill CBE | Formerly a clerk in the Borough Treasurer’s department at Bolton, secretary of the Bolton Municipal Officers’ Guild, and one of the Guild’s delegates to NALGO’s NEC from its fourth meeting in May, 1906, until his appointment. |
1943-45 | John Simonds | From 1912 to 1930 Secretary of the National Poor Law Officers’ Association; appointed NALGO’s Legal Officer, Insurance Secretary, and General Manager of Logomia when the NPLOA merged with NALGO in 1930; and promoted to Deputy General Secretary in 1936. |
1945-46 | Haden Corser | One of the first three district secretaries appointed in 1919; promoted to Chief Organisation Officer in 1944 and Deputy General Secretary in 1945. Acting General Secretary 1945-46. |
1946-57 | John Herbert Warren OBE | A local government officer from 1911, appointed Assistant Solicitor at Birkenhead in 1933, Clerk of Newton-le-Willows Urban District Council in 1935, and Town Clerk of Slough in 1939. He was a member of NALGO’s NEC from 1935 to 1946. |
1957- | Walter Charles Anderson | Formerly Assistant Solicitor at Bootle and Deputy Town Clerk of Heywood; joined NALGO staff as assistant solicitor in 1937; was promoted to Legal Officer in succession to John Simonds in 1946; appointed Deputy General Secretary when Haden Corser retired in 1950; and succeeded John Warren as General Secretary in 1957. In 1965, Mr Anderson was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress and in 1966 was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service. |
Treasurers of NALGO
Years | Name | Employed as |
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1905-08 | W Crowther | Borough Librarian, Derby |
1908-16 | J W Forster | Borough Accountant, Tunbridge Wells |
1916-24 | Sam Lord | Treasurer, Acton Urban District Council |
1924-25 | C H Patterson | Borough Treasurer, West Ham |
1925-37 | W E Lloyd | Borough Treasurer, Hampstead |
1937-43 | W H Legh-Smith | City Treasurer, Liverpool |
1943-46 | S Whitehead | Borough Treasurer, Hammersmith |
1946-52 | J H Robinson | City Treasurer, Leeds |
1952-61 | John Ruscoe | Treasurer of the City, Bradford |
1961- | B T Jennings | Borough Treasurer, East Ham, later Newham |
NALGO national executive council members, 1918-1966
Name | First and last employments while in office | Years in office |
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Before 1918, NALGO’s National Executive Council was composed of representatives of all the affiliated guilds and professional societies, each of which sent one or more delegates to its meetings. Since these often changed from meeting to meeting, it is impracticable to list them. The list therefore begins in 1918, when the NEC was first elected by members in district constituencies – save that, where a member elected after 1918 regularly attended before then, the date of his first attendance is given. Key: P – President; VP – Vice President; HT – Honorary Treasurer; Tr – Trustee; HS – Honorary Solicitor | ||
E W B Abbott | Director of Education, Maidstone | 1918-32; VP 1927-32 |
R Adams | Clerical Assistant – Divisional Supervisor, Assessor’s Dept, Edinburgh | 1939-49 |
W A Adkins | Chief Administrative Assistant, Clerk’s Dept, East Ham – Chief Clerk, Clerk’s Dept, Newham | 1963- |
E Alderton | Warden, Bexley Adult Education Centre, Kent – Area Principal, Adult Education, Bexley | 1959-66 |
T Alker | Town Clerk, Liverpool, HS | 1959-63 |
H Allen | Senior Clerk, Treasurer’s Dept, West Riding CC | 1933-46 |
L T Allen | Housing Inspector, Nottingham | 1965-66 |
H J Altoun | Rating Officer, Hastings | 1936-43 |
L G Amabilino | Administrative Officer, Education Dept, Isle of Wight CC | 1960-65 |
Miss M Anderson | Superintendent of Meals, Education Dept, West Ham | 1945-48 |
A Anderton | Senior Accountancy Assistant, Walsall – Finance Officer, Walsall Hospital Management Committee | 1947-50; 1951-53; 1962-63 |
W F Appleton | Chief Public Health Inspector, Portsmouth | 1949-67 |
A G M Archibald | Chemist, City Analyst’s Dept, Glasgow | 1921-41; Tr 1936-41; VP 1938-41 |
W W Armitage | Book-keeper and Collector – Principal Assistant, Water Dept, Sheffield | 1922-38; VP 1935-37; P 1937-38 |
P Ashen | Works Chemist – West Midlands Gas Board | 1949-50 |
G R Ashton MBE | Clerk and Chief Financial Officer, Keynsham UDC | 1947-65; VP 1960-62; P 1962-63 |
A H Aubertin | Chief Administrative Officer, Roads and Bridges Dept, East Suffolk CC | 1948-52 |
W G Auger | Sanitary Inspector, St Pancras | 1930-34 |
E F Bacon | Superintendent, Attendance and Juvenile Welfare Dept – Assistant Education Officer, Norfolk CC | 1936-51 |
F Bainbridge | Committee Clerk – Administrative Assistant, Clerk’s Dept, Durham CC | 1942-54 |
A J Baker | Area Collection Supervisor, Eastern Gas Board | 1963- |
J T Baker | Rate Collector – Area Officer (Rating), Lambeth | 1928-42; Tr 1939-41 |
W A N Baker | Chief Sanitary Inspector, Maidstone | 1935-44; 1947-50 |
S E Bambridge | Senior Commercial Assistant, London Electricity Board | 1965- |
F D Barton | Engineer and Surveyor, Hammersmith | 1937-43 |
A Batley | Clerk-in-Charge, Secretarial Section, Works Dept – Assistant Administrative Officer, Health Dept, Leeds | 1949-53 |
O Baxter | Chief Clerk, Education Dept, Middlesbrough | 1950-56 |
P F Beels | Senior Administrative Assistant, Education Dept, Middlesex CC – Chief Administrative Assistant, Education Dept, Enfield | 1958-59; 1960-66 |
Mrs K M Beevers | Supervisor, Oxley Special Training Centre, Wolverhampton | 1966- |
W R Beevers | Hospital Steward, Sheffield | 1939-49 |
H Begg | County Veterainary Inspector, Lanarkshire | 1921-36; Tr 1922-36 |
G T Belton | Deputy Clerka nd Rating and Valuation Officer – Clerk of the Council, Basford RDC | 1944-65; VP 1958-60; P 1960-61 |
J Besserman | Senior Assistant Solicitor – Assistant Town Clerk, Coventry | 1955- |
L Bevan | Clerk and Steward, Hensol Castle Mental Deficiency Colony, Glamorganshire – Hospital Secretary, Morgannwg Hospital Management Committee | 1941-62; VP 1950-51; P 1951-52 |
H Bewes | Senior Mains Clerk, Eastern Electricity Board | 1949-53 |
N W Bingham | Clerk, Education Dept – Chief Clerk, Children’s Dept, Kent CC | 1944-; Tr 1953-57; VP 1957-59; P 1959-60 |
H Blizard | Committee Clerk – Principal Assistant, Town Clerk’s Dept, Hendon | 1943-47 |
G H Blood | District Senior Clerk, Eastern Electricity Board | 1951-54 |
A Blue | Clerk, Scottish Gas Board | 1955-57; 1959-65 |
A G Boulton | Senior Accountancy Assistant, Harrogate | 1929-48; Tr 1941-48 |
T W Bottomley | Assistant Education Officer, Dewsbury | 1936-37 |
E M Bourne | Assistant Accountant, Hull | 1945-49 |
T D Bradford | Chief Cashier, Treasurer’s Dept, Hampstead | 1948-53 |
T E Brierley | Section Head, Treasurer’s Dept, Coventry | 1953-65; Tr 1960-65 |
S H Brodie | Chief Divisional Clerk, Assessor’s Dept, Glasgow – Establishment Officer, South-West Scotland Electricity Board | 1945-51 |
C G Brown | Town Clerk, Cardiff | 1925-34; HS 1927-33; VP 1932-33; P 1933-34 |
J Brown | Chief Committee Clerk, Lanarkshire CC | 1936-48 |
P H Brown | Chief Cashier, Transport Dept, Portsmouth | 1946-48 |
R D Brown | Chief Clerk, Engineer’s Dept, Barking | 1943-46 |
A Buchan | Registrar, Dundee | 1921-23, 1926-28 |
A H Buckely | Principal Administrative Assistant, Education Dept, Bolton | 1962- |
F J Burgess | Senior Assistant (Salaries and Wages), Finance Dept, North Manchester Hospital Management Committee | 1953-54 |
A S Butcher | Senior Assistant (Establishments), Secretarial Dept, Eastern Electricity Board | 1963-65 |
G C V Cant | Deputy Town Clerk, Stoke-on-Trent | 1927-30; 1931-33 |
G Carter | Chief Committee Clerk, Stockport | 1921-30 |
E A Chapman | Principal Clerk, Education Dept, Glamorgan CC | 1927-30 |
H Charlton | Senior Committee Clerk, Bolton | 1949-50 |
J Chaston | Deputy Clerk – Clerk to the Council, Kettering | 1925-45 |
E C R Chinn | Accountancy Assistant – Salaries Officer, Huddersfield | 1948-56 |
A Clark | Chief Clerk, Engineer and Surveyer’s Dept, Bolton | 1939-48 |
J H Clark | Second Assistant (Rates), Treasurer’s Dept, Wakefield | 1937-41 |
E H Clayton | Superannuation Administrative Officer, Treasurer’s Dept, Gloucestershire CC | 1957- |
G H Clifford | Assistant, North-Western Electricity Board | 1966- |
C Cooper | Chief Registration Clerk, Treasurer’s Dept, Sheffield | 1920-21 |
R W Coppock | General Rent and Rates Superintendent, Nottingham | 1939-45 |
F C Corbishley | Chief Clerk, Secretarial Section, Treasurer’s Dept, York | 1945-58 |
H S Corden | Senior Traffic Clerk, Transport Dept, Nottingham | 1961- |
G W Coster | Clerk to the West Derby Assessment Committee, Liverpool | 1930-36; VP 1933-35; P 1935-36 |
E G Couldrey | Administrative Officer, Glamorgan CC | 1959-63 |
F E Cox | Assistant Chief Relieving Officer – Assistant Area Welfare Officer, London County Council | 1936-44 |
Sir Homewood Crawford | City Solicitor, London | 1906-24; VP 1906-08; P 1908-24 |
G B Credland | Salaries and Superannuation Assistant – Counter Cashier, Treasurer’s Dept, Sheffield | 1949-53; 1954-55 |
R M Creed | Principal Assistant Accountant, Croydon and Kent area, South-Eastern Electricity Board | 1958- |
E C Crofts | Accountant, Nottingham | 1923-27 |
G H Crossley | Deputy Borough Treasurer. Huddersfield | 1914-19 |
Miss M W Curtin | Matron, Moxley Hospital, Wednesbury | 1947-; VP 1964-66; P 1966-67 |
J Darricotte | Headmaster – Supervisor of Schools, Bolton | 1907-27; VP 1924-27 |
J F Davidson | County Medical Officer of Health, Somerset CC | 1939-43 |
W Davidson | Engineer’s Dept, Hull | 1919 |
E R Davies | Deputy Clerk of the Council, Berkshire CC | 1939-45; 1946-51; VP 1949-51 |
T Davies | Deputy Accountant, Bedwellty UDC | 1924-25 |
Miss E Dawson | Senior Clerk, Education Dept, Leeds | 1938-45; 1946-49 |
A B Day | Surveyor of Buildings. Education Dept, Nottingham | 1935-43 |
V A Day | Research Officer, Town Planning Office, Oxford | 1950- |
E P Debenham | Town Clerk, St Albans | 1918-19 |
J M Delves | Clerk of the Council, Tenterden RDC | 1948-49 |
A H Dimmock | Chief Clerk, Treasurer’s Dept, Fulham | 1918-25 |
G Dixon | Commercial Manager (Barrow-in-Furness) North-Western Gas Board | 1950-51 |
W O Dodd | Deputy Town Clerk – Town Clerk, Brighton | 1939-48; HS 1960 |
R F Donnelly | Inspector of Weights and Measures, Kilmarnock | 1945-46 |
Miss J A Downton | Chief Librarian, Preston | 1948-49 |
N Dracup | Accountancy Assistant, Treasurer’s Dept, Bradford | 1941-43 |
H Duckworth | Sectional Senior Clerk – Senior Administrative Assistant, Highways and Bridges Dept, West Riding CC | 1958- |
A E Dumbrell | Chief Cashier – Assistant County Treasurer, East Sussex CC | 1950-61 |
S Duncan | County Publicity Officer, Lancashire CC | 1948-67; VP 1963-65; P 1965-66 |
F Eade | Cashier – Arrears Officer, South-Eastern Gas Board | 1958-65 |
A J Eagles | Senior Accountancy Assistant, St Helier Group Hospital Management Committee | 1953-55 |
J W S Edmonds | Second-Class Clerk – Accountancy Officer, Port of London Authority | 1944-65; Tr 1957-65 |
G Endsor | Engineering Draughtsman, Engineer’s Dept, Nottingham | 1918-20 |
P W English | Deputy Chief – Chief Public Health Inspector, Ilford | 1951-63; Tr 1961-63 |
E G Euinton | Chief Assistant (Rating and Income), Treasurer’s Dept, Luton | 1954-60; 1961-63; 1964- |
C B Evans | Chief Clerk, Housing Management Dept, Birmingham | 1950-54 |
R Evans | Rating and Valuation Officer – Clerk to the Council, Blackwell RDC | 1945-63; VP 1959-61; P 1961-62 |
R L Evans | First Class Clerk, Warwickshire CC | 1945-48 |
R M Evans | Chief Cost Clerk, Highways Dept, Gloucester CC | 1954-56 |
J Y Fawcett | Chief Cashier, South Shields | 1941-60; Tr 1953-60 |
T Fernley | Collector, North-Western Gas Board, Manchester Group | 1956-66 |
F R Finch | Principal Assistant, Education Dept – Deputy Director of Education, Willesden | 1924-36 |
L R Finnimore | Administrative Assistant, Exeter | 1956-57 |
A E Fitton | District Public Health Inspector, Blackpool | 1949-62 |
Mrs G Franks | Head Inspector of Maternal and Child Welfare, Health Dept, Sheffield | 1925-35 |
G S Fraser | Writer, Town Clerk’s Dept, Glasgow – Town Clerk, Aberdeen | 1924-25; HS 1927-43 |
J H Fraser | Senior Audit Assistant, Leeds | 1966- |
T Freeman | Chief Accountant, Treasurer’s Dept, Manchester | 1927-41; Tr 1937-41 |
D Galbraith | Chief Cashier – Depute Chamberlain, Paisley | 1947-60; Tr 1960-61 |
A Gallon | Secretary and Chief Clerk, Engineer’s Dept, Newcastle upon Tyne | 1948-53 |
J J Gardner | Senior Administrative Assistant, Town Clerk’s Dept, Stepney – Chief Officer, Public Control Dept, Tower Hamlets | 1955-57; 1959- |
A S Garnett | Clerk-in-Charge – Supplies Officer, Engineer and Surveyor’s Dept, Liverpool | 1946-49 |
A A Garrard OBE | Assistant Secretary to the Education Committee, East Ham | 1925-30; 1934-44; VP 1941-44; P 1944-45 |
Miss F L Gates | School Nurse, Reading | 1945-46 |
J E Gee | Chief Clerk, Health and Housing Dept – Principal Clerk, Health Dept, Lancashire CC | 1919-20; 1930-36 |
W P Gilligan | Chief Staffing and Statistical Assistant, Treasurer’s Dept, Devonshire CC | 1951-61 |
Miss E E Goodchild | Personal Secretary, Education Dept, Hampshire CC | 1965- |
F W Goodchild | Director of Social Welfare, Ipswich | 1947-49 |
A J Gould | Chief Clerk of Rhondda and Pontypridd Guardians’ Committee, Glamorgan CC | 1936-41 |
V Grainger | Senior Clerk, Treasurer’s Dept, Newcastle upon Tyne | 1932-41 |
R S Gray | Administrative Assistant, Treasurer’s Dept – Town Clerk’s Dept, Norwich | 1952- |
G R Greenway | Senior Clerk, Stapleton Gasworks, Bristol | 1963 |
Miss C Greedus | Clerk, Electricity Dept, Walthamstow | 1947-48 |
Miss M G G Gregory | Branch Librarian, Sheffield | 1956-65 |
D L Griffiths | Town Clerk, Aldershot | 1927-45 |
Miss A Guest | Borough Librarian, Barnsley | 1951-56 |
H C T Hailes | Chief Clerk, Roads and Bridges Dept, Dorset CC | 1959- |
D L Harbottle | Town Clerk, Blackpool | 1918-19 |
W D Harris | Chief Costing Assistant, Treasurer’s Dept, Southend-on-Sea | 1966- |
W J Harris | Administrative Officer, Health Dept, Glamorgan CC | 1951-59 |
F H Harrod CBE | Director of Education, Coventry | 1939-46; VP 1943-45; P 1945-46 |
P H Harrold OBE | Town Clerk, Hampstead | 1932-58; HS 1932-56; VP 1946-48; P 1948-49 and 1955-56 |
Dr Irene C Hastilow | Deputy Medical Officer of Health, Rowley Regis | 1948-49 |
R F Henderson | Commercial Clerk – Assistant (Commercial Clerical), Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board | 1951-52; 1953-55; 1955-60 |
B W Heptinstall | Senior Clerk, Bournemouth and Poole Electricity Supply Co | 1948-49 |
A H Heron | Clerk, County Clerk’s Dept, Durham CC | 1956- |
R E Heron | Chief Clerk, Education Dept – Deputy Director of Education, Sunderland | 1936-50 |
L W G Hetherington | Superintendent, Electricity Consumers, Wimbledon – District Commercial Engineer, London Electricity Board, SW Sub-area | 1948- , VP 1961-63; P 1963-64 |
A B Hill | Chief Clerk, Children’s Dept, Brighton | 1966- |
R W E Hill | Administrative Assistant – Senior Administrative Assistant, Health Dept, Surrey CC | 1957- |
J L Holland | Secretary for Education, Northampton CC | 1936-44; VP 1936-38; P 1938-39 |
C C Holt | Chief Clerk and Cashier, North-Eastern Gas Board | 1963- |
G Horscroft | Chief Clerk/Labour Officer, Southwark ‘A’ Power Station, British Electricity Authority | 1949-50 |
J Horsfall | District Inspector of Weights and Measures, Wolverhampton | 1960-66 |
W E Hudson | District Clerk (Dagenham), Essex Education Committee | 1938-44 |
S A Hughes | Principal Clerk, Lewisham | 1944-45 |
M Humphrey | Clerk and Solicitor, Felixstowe | 1920-30 |
Miss D Humphreys | Non-Medical Supervisor of Midwives, Leeds | 1952-54 |
N Hurd | Rating Officer, Manchester | 1950-54 |
A F Hutt | Librarian, College of Technology, Manchester | 1948-49 |
T J Hutton | Chief Assistant, Town Clerk’s Office, Marylebone – Assistant Town Clerk, Westminster | 1955-59; 1960- |
J G Iles | Town Clerk, Newport (Mon) | HS 1950-66; VP 1965- |
R W Iley | Technical Officer, Maintenance of Appliances and Public Lightin, Northern Gas Board, Sunderland | 1953-55 |
A M Imrie | Inspector of Weights and Measures, Dundee | 1931-34 |
A Jack | Clerk, Transport Dept, Glasgow | 1965- |
L R Jenkins | Chief Costs Assistant, County Surveyopr’s Dept, Buckinghamshire CC | 1951-55; 1958-64 |
B T Jennings | Borough Treasurer, East Ham (later Newham) | HT 1961- |
J G Jester | District Public Assistance Officer, Birmingham | 1948-49 |
H W John | Senior Clerical Officer, Engineer’s Dept, Cardiff – Establishment Officer, British Electricity Authority (South Wales Division) | 1944-53 |
Sir Arthur P Johnson | (knighted 1932). Town Clerk, Hampstead | 1907-32; HS 1907-10; NEC Chairman 1910-32; VP 1918-24; P 1924-31 |
Dr G P Johnson | Medical Officer of Health, Stoke-on-Trent | 1919-22 |
R G Johnson | City Treasurer, Sheffield | 1910-19; Tr 1918-27 |
E E Jones | Technical Assistant, Northumberland CC | 1965- |
H Jones | Committee Clerk – Senior Administrative Assistant, Cheshire CC | 1963-65; 1966- |
H R Jones | Senior Accountancy Assistant, Wolverhampton | 1941-60; Tr 1953-60 |
K W Jones | Senior Committee Clerk, Monmouthshire CC | 1957- |
H Jordan | Chief Assistant, Accountant’s Dept, Glamorgan CC | 1919-23; Tr 1919-28 |
H Joyce | Superannuation Officer, Lincoln | 1943-47 |
J Joyce | Clerical Assistant – Administrative Assistant, City Engineer’s Dept, Edinburgh | 1961- |
F H Jupe | Chief Clerk, Education Dept, Hampshire CC | 1951-53 |
H A Jury | Clerk – Costing Assistant, Wimbledon | 1939-43; 1948049 |
A E Kay | Adminstrative Assistant, Clerk’s Dept, Essex CC | 1949-55 |
T J Du’B Keefe | Chief Costing Assistant, Surveyor’s Dept, Nottinghamshire CC | 1954- |
A E Kell | Assistant Chief Clerk, Electricity Dept, Bristol – Deputy Chief Clerk, South-Western Electricity Board, Bristol and North Somerset Sub-Area | 1948-49 |
W Kenyon | Chief Administrative Assistant, Parks and Gardens Department, Liverpool | 196-62 |
J A Kershaw | Principal Officer, City Treasurer, Bradford | 1965 |
A F Kidson | Town Clerk, Folkestone | HS, 1910-29 |
G A Knowles | Chief Food Inspector, Sheffield | 1956-66 |
L G Lambe | Accounts Assistant, Education Dept, Croydon | 1948-49 |
G Lawson | Chief Clerk, Sanitary Dept, Edinburgh | 1934-35 |
W Chambers Leete | Town Clerk, Kensington | 1913-20 |
W H Legh-Smith | City Treasurer, Liverpool | HT 1937-43 |
Mrs L E Lewis | Section Clerk in charge of Branch Clinic, Health Dept, Ipswich | 1953-56 |
T W Lewis | Assistant Overseer, Barry | 1918-19; 1923-24 |
J Lewthwaite | Assistant Overseer, Leeds | 1921-22 |
G Llewellyn | Chief Clerk, Treasurer’s Dept, Monmouthshire CC | 1930-51; Tr 1941-51 |
W E Lloyd | Borough Treasurer, Hampstead | HT 1925-37; VP 1934-36; P 1936-37 |
H Long | Public Health Inspector, Leeds | 1960-67 |
S Lord | Treasurer, Acton UDC – Acton Borough | 1910-54; HT 1918-24; Tr 1927-39; VP 1924-31; P 1931-32; Chairman, Logomia 1933-54 |
F B Lunt | Town Clerk’s Dept, Liverpool | 1925-31 |
C F Lythall | Chief Clerk, Surveyor’s Dept, Leicester | 1910-19 |
M O McAuliffe | Assistant Secretary, Bristol Education Committee | 1921-35 |
J B McCann | First Class (A) Assistant, Public Health Dept – Senior Assistant, Clerk of the Council’s Department, London County Council | 1947-58 |
J M McElroy | General Manager, Tramways Dept, Manchester | 1914-18 |
K J McFadyen | Senior Audit Assistant, Treasurer’s Dept, West Sussex CC | 1965- |
R McGill | County Clerk, Moray and Nairn CC | HS 1943-49 |
N McLean | Clerk – Supervisor, Citay Chamberlain’s Dept – Assistant City Collector, Glasgow | 1949- |
T E Madigan | Deputy Superintendent Registrar, Plymouth | 1961 |
F Magill | Assistant Secretary/Accountant, Estates Dept, Birmingham | 1964- |
F R Mann | Divisional Officer for Education, West Riding CC | 1945-46 |
F Marsden | Deputy City Engineer and Surveyor, Bradford | 1909-33; VP 1922-32; P 1932-33 |
G C Martin | Income Tax Officer, City Treasurer’s Dept, Birmingham | 1948-49 |
T W Maslen | Audit Assistant, Coventry | 1945-48 |
E H Mason | Assistant Traffic Superintendent – Deputy General Manager and Traffic Superintendent, Transport Dept, Manchester | 1937-48 |
H Mather | Chief Cashier – Assistant Accountant, Waterworks Dept, Manchester | 1950-56 |
W A Mayne | Landscape Gardener, Basildon New Town | 1965- |
J A Meek | Senior Assistant (Administration), Town Clerk’s Dept – Education Dept, Liverpool | 1963- |
F V Merriman | Chief Education Officer, Reading | 1935-39 |
J F Miller | County Clerk, Dunbarton CC | HS 1964- |
J M Miller | Chief Legal Assistant, Ayr CC | 1964- |
A B Mills | Director of Education, Swinton and Pendlebury | 1941-43 |
P Mitchell | First-Class Clerk, Northumberland CC | 1920-24 |
Miss H M Monaghan | Burgh Assessor and Registration Officer, Clydebank – Senior Assistant, Assessor’s Dept, Dunbarton CC | 1951-59; 1960-65 |
J E Morgan | Group Secretary, West Wiltshire Hospital Management Committee | 1961- |
P D Morgan | Clerk, Education Dept, Birmingham | 1963; 1965- |
R Morgan | Deputy Group Secretary, Dartford Hospital Management Committee | 1954-66; Tr 1965-66 |
H Morris | Chief Clerk for Higher Education, Swansea | 1935-36 |
Sir G Parker Morris | Town Clerk, Westminster | HS 1929-32 |
J W Moss | Education Secretary, Wycombe – Divisional Education Officer, Buckingham CC | 1945-50 |
R A Reay Nadin | Town Clerk, Sutton Coldfield | 1909-19 |
W K Nattrass | District Inspector of Weights and Measures, Dorset CC | 1954-59 |
C J Newman | Town Clerk, Exeter | 1945-54; VP 1945-47; P 1947-58 |
T Nolan | Clerk, Electricity Dept, Leeds – Accountant, No 4 (Leeds) Sub-Area, Yorkshire Electricity Board | 1935-60; Tr 1948-52; VP 1951-53; P 1953-54 |
H Norton | Assistant Claims Superintendent, Transport Dept, Sheffield | 1943-44 |
A E Nortrop | Deputy Director of Education, Luton | 1944- ; VP 1956-58; P 1958-59 |
F N Nunn | Superintendent Social Welfare Officer, Portsmouth | 1948-49 |
R G Oakley | Senior Accountancy Assistant, Birmingham | 1957-63 |
A E Odell | Committee Clerk, Southwark – Deputy Town Clerk, Poplar | 1943-63; VP 1954-57; P 1957-58 |
A Denton Ogden | Chief Sanitary Inspector, Chelmsford RDC | 1935-47 |
D J Osborne | Deputy Town Clerk, Barnsley | 1943-44 |
A J Packer | Assistant Divisional Education Officer, Kent CC | 1949-53 |
L H Palmer | Senior Records Clerk, Southern Electricity Board, Portsmouth | 1949-51 |
C B Parkin | Section Head (Administration), Southern Division, Central Electricity Authority, Portsmouth | 1955-58 |
D J Parry CBE | Solicitor – clerk to Glamorgan CC | HS 1933-50; VP 1944-46; P 1946-47 |
C H Patterson | Borough Treasurer, West Ham | 1921-25; HT 1924-25 |
J Penny | Chief Clerk, City Assessor’s Dept – City Assessor, Surveyor of Rating and Registration, Dundee | 1945-53 |
J Pepper | Senior Committee Clerk, Nottingham – Establishment Officer, East Midland Electricity Board | 1943-58; Tr 1948-53; VOP 1953-56; P 1956-57 |
Sir Tom Percival | Clerk, Central Northumberland Assessment Committee | 1930-33; VP 1932-33 |
G J Phillips | Senior Public Health Inspector, Neath | 1963- |
G W Phillips | Superintendent, School Attendance and Bylaws Dept, Walthamstow | 1943-47 |
J P Phoenix | Information Officer, Liverpool | 1948-55 |
A Pinches | Chief Clerk, Electricity Accounts – Chief Rate Collector, Croydon | 1925-48; Tr 1941-48 |
W Pitt-Steele | Secretary, Aldersbrook Homes and Hospital, Wanstead | 1944-51 |
Miss F E Pole | Secretary to General Manager, Transport Dept, Sheffield – Home Help Organiser, Leicester | 1948- |
H G Pope | City Assessor, Aberdeen | 1923-24; 1937-39 |
F V Powell | Borough Engineer and Surveyor, Blackburn | 1955-66; Tr 1963-66 |
W H Pullinger | Rate Collector, Poplar | 1912-24 |
E Ratcliffe | Chief Clerk, Education Dept, Keighley | 1921-25 |
C R M Reed | Senior Internal Audit Assistant, City Treasury, Bristol | 1965- |
R S Reeve | Local Welfare Officer – Senior Welfare Officer, Norfolk CC | 1956-61 |
J C Rennie | Town Clerk, Aberdeen | HS 1949-64 |
S W E Richards | Clerk (Accountancy), East Midlands Gas Board (Leicester) | 1953-54 |
T F Richardson | Administrative Assistant, Public Health Dept, Edinburh | 1957-58 |
E L Riley | Chief Clerk, Veterinary Dept – Establishment Officer, Liverpool | 1935-59; VP 1948-50; P 1950-51 |
R Riley | Deputy Chief Public Health Inspector, Manchester | 1955-64 |
C A W Roberts OBE | Manager, Walton Hospital, Liverpool | 1930-44; VP 1939-43; P 1943-44 |
E Robins | Deputy Town Clerk, Leicester | 1939-43 |
C S Robinson | Town Clerk, Blackburn | 1936-38 |
J H Robinson | City Treasurer, Leeds | HT 1946-52 |
A R Roddick | Administrative Officer, Central Tuberculosis and Hospital Admissions Dept, Glasgow | 1958-59; 1963-64; 1965- |
R J Roddis | Town Clerk, Penrhyn | 1943-44 |
P P Rosenfeld | Engineering Assistant, Ilford | 1948-50 |
D Ross-Johnson | General Manager, Bristol Docks | 1915-20 |
J H Rothwell | Town Clerk, Chesterfield | 1921-23 |
W Rowlands | Chief Finance Officer – Treasurer, Rhyl UDC | 1943-53; Tr 1951-53 |
L E Rumsey | Clerk of the Council, Leicester CC | 1936-39 |
John Ruscoe | Treasurer of the City, Bradford | HT 1952-61 |
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R H Russell | Establishment Officer, Kingston Group Hospital Management Committee – Senior Administrative Officer, SW Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board | 1957-58; 1959 – |
P Saunders | Town Clerk, Halifax | 1918-19 |
C E Savage | Internal Audit Assistant, Kingston-upon-Hull | 1954-58 |
E H Scarlett | Committee Clerk, Norwich | 1930-36 |
H N Schrader | Chief Welfare Officer, Wolverhampton | 1949-57 |
Miss I Seiller | Senior Accounts Clerk, South-Eastern Gas Board | 1958-59 |
S E Shallice | Senior Traffic Assistant – Senior Administrative Assistant, Transport Dept, Manchester | 1955-56; 1965- |
F Sharpe | Chief Clerk, Electricity Dept, Oldham | 1939-46 |
F W Shww | Sub-Area Accountant (Mid-Sussex), South-Eastern Electricity Board | 1953-58 |
T G Shaw | First-Class Clerk, Durham CC | 1920-21; 1922-23 |
R T Shears | Senior Officer, Clerk’s Dept, Devon CC – Clerk to North Devon Water Board | 1938-51 |
R A Siddons | Finance Officer, Education Dept, Leicester CC | 1947-48 |
Miss C Simms | Insurance Officer, Treasurer’s Dept, Stretford | 1953-57; 1958-61; 1962- |
J W Singleton | Borough Librarian, Accrington | 1923-39 |
L G Sirett | Senior Accountancy Assistant, Hendon | 1949-53 |
C A Smallman MBE | Senior Welfare Officer, Birmingham | 1949- ; VP 1962-64; P 1964-65 |
A Smith | Chief Statistical Officer – Chief Administrative Officer, Treasurer’s Dept, Sheffield | 1948-55 |
H W Smith | Senior Clerk, Kent CC | 1939-39 |
T E Smith | District Rating Officer, Birmingham | 1954-55 |
R E Sopwith | Senior Inspector of Schools, Sheffield | 1937-39 |
T Spence | Rating Clerk – Deputy County Collector, Dunbarton CC | 1939-45; 1952-63 |
Miss I Stansfield | Administrative Officer, Education Dept, Manchester | 1935-45 |
E J Stead | County Surveyor, Somerset CC | 1935-43; VP 1937-39; P 1939-43 |
A Lindsay Stewart | Deputy Town Clerk, Edinburgh | 1959-61 |
T Stewart | Chief Accountant, Inverness CC | 1948-52; 1953-55 |
G A Stone | Local Taxation Officer – Controller and Licence Officer, Worcester CC | 1933-41 |
J H Stone | Assistant Overseer and Collector, Newcastle upon Tyne | 1925-32 |
A L Strachan | Schoomaster, Plymouth | 1910-27 |
H R L Strawbridge | Distribution Engineer, Tendring Hundred Waterworks Co | 1960-66 |
W Strother | Borough Engineer and Surveyor, Bethnal Green | 1941-60; VP 1951-52; P 1952-53 |
H Sutherland | Meter Reading Section, Scottish Gas Board | 1965- |
H Taylor | Deputy Town Clerk, Stoke-on-Trent | 1936-45 |
L H Taylor | First Committee Clerk – Chief Administrative Assistant, Town Clerk’s Dept, Salford | 1937-56; VP 1952-54; P 1954-55 |
F B Tempest | Chief Internal Auditor, West Bromwich | 1947-48 |
A Harrison Thomas | Court of Passage, Liverpool | 1906-23 |
D F Thorne | Chief Clerk and Accountant, City Engineer’s Dept, Cardiff | 1919-20 |
W Threlfall | Chief Librarian, Stretford | 1943-46 |
Miss M Townson | Assistant-in-Charge, Welfare and Records, Passenger Transport Dept, Liverpool | 1948-63 |
R G Trollope | Chief Clerk, Parks Dept, Swansea | 1950-57 |
Dr G Clark Trotter | Medical Officer of Health, Paisley | 1918-19 |
J H Tyrrell | Deputy Public Assistant Officer, Lancashire CC | 1938-48 |
J S Underwood | Chief Internal Audit Clerk, Blackpool | 1943-50 |
E J Varley | Chief Clerk, Education Dept, Gateshead | 1954- ; Tr 1965- ; VP 1966- |
Miss F M A Vaughan | Superintendent Radiographer, Accident and Orthopaedic X-Ray Dept, The London Hospital | 1963- |
W E Veasey | Borough Treasurer, West Bromwich | 1943-47 |
J W Vince | Clerk, Education Committee, Durham CC | 1935-42 |
Capt W J Wade | Superintendent of Markets, Manchester | 1908-22; Tr 1919-21 |
T S Wailes | Chief Revenue Assistant, Treasurer’s Dept, Darlington | 1960-64 |
A Walker | City Assessor, Glasgow | HS 1920-25 |
R E Walker | Chief Clerk, Peterborough District, Eastern Electricity Board | 1956-57; 1960-66 |
R Walls | Cashier, Town Clerk’s Office, Edinburgh | 1920-21; 1928-31 |
T Wallwark | Assistant Electrical Engineer, Blackburn | 1919-20 |
B J Walpole | Chief Clerk, Clerk’s Dept, Yorkshire Ouse and Hull River Authority | 1949-50; 1958-65 |
J H Warren | Clerk to the Council, Newton-in-Makerfield UDC – Town Clerk, Slough | 1935-46 |
T H Waterhouse | Legal Adviser, Birmingham Regional Hospital Board | 1964- |
A Webb | Reference Librarian, Brighton | 1932-36 |
R B Webb | Establishment Officer, Westminster | 1948-53 |
S C Wellington | Administrative Clerk-in-Charge, School Health Services, West Sussex CC | 1947-49 |
W Whalley | Senior Administrative Assistant, Education Dept, Lancashire CC | 1959- |
W H Whinnerah | Senior Clerk – Secretary, Highways Dept, Manchester | 1919-37; Tr 1928-37 |
G A White | Deputy Senior Clerk, Eastern Electricity Board, Northmet Sub-area, Chingford | 1949 |
S Whitehead | Borough Treasurer, Hammersmith | HT 1943-46 |
E G Whitney | First-Class Clerk, Port of London Authority | 1935-37 |
J W S Wilkinson | Chief Clerk, Clerk’s Dept – Deputy Town Clerk, Southport | 1919-38 |
F J Willett | Chief Clerk, Higher Education Dept, Salford | 1909-37 |
F J Williamson | Chief Administrative Assistant, Education Dept, Swansea | 1962- |
Rhys Williams | Deputy Accountant, Gellygaer | 1939-44 |
L T G Wilmshurst | Entertainments and Publicity Manager, Southampton | 1963- |
W Wilson | Chief Public Assistance Officer, Fife CC | 1935-37 |
H Winter | Hospital Secretary and Superintendent, Fairfield General Hospital, Bury and Rossendale Hospital Management Committee | 1957- |
G Wolfenden | Sectional Chief Clerk, Education Dept, West Riding CC | 1926-29 |
C A W Wood | Deputy County Accountant, Staffordshire CC | 1924-27 |
Miss L H Wooldridge | Inspector of Health Visitors and Midwives, Staffordshire CC | 1935-37 |
L Worden | Deputy Town Clerk, Smethwick – Town Cl;erk, Hendon | 1922-24; 1935-43 |
Dr A Wotherspoon | Medical Officer of Health, Stoke-on-Trent | 1930-35; VP 1933-34; P 1934-35 |
G D Wright | Acting Borough Accountant, Darlington | 1908-19 |
W J Wynn | Principal Assistant Architect, County Architect’s Dept, Surrey CC | 1950-54 |
R Yarwood | Clerk, Water Dept, Stockport | 1954-58 |
W W Yeates | Deputy City Librarian, Plymouth | 1949-54 |
L C St Leger Yeend | Clerk to the Council, Sodbury RDC | 1944-48 |
E Young | Administrative Assistant, Leeds (Broup B) Hospital Management Committee | 1950-51 |
E A S Young | Assistant Director of Education, Willesden | 1937-51; VP 1947-49; P 1949-50 |
J Young | Administrative Assistant, County Clerk’s Dept, Kent CC | 1943-47 |