Margaret Prosser, Baroness Prosser
Margaret Theresa Prosser, Baroness Prosser, OBE (born 22 August 1937) is a Labour life peer and Deputy Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.[1]
Biography [edit]
Margaret Prosser was born on 22 August 1937 in Tooting, south London, the daughter of Frederick James and Lillian (née Barry).
She was educated at St Boniface Primary School, Undine Street, Tooting and St Philomena's School, Carshalton. [2] She studied as a mature student at North East London Polytechnic, qualifying with a Post-graduate Diploma in Advice and Information Studies in 1977.
Margaret Prosser became active in the Labour party and the trades union movement in the early 1970s, rising through the ranks of the Transport and General Workers' Union (T&G) to become president of the TUC in 1995.
She was a member of the Equal Opportunities Commission 1985-92 and the Low Pay Commission 2000-05. She was awarded an OBE in 1997.
On 11 June 2004, she was created Baroness Prosser, of Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
Since 2006, she has served as Deputy Chair of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights.
In 2012 she published her autobiography Your Seat is at the End, written with Greg Watts and with a foreword by Tony Blair.[3]
References [edit]
- Who's Who 2010
- Parliament.uk
- ^ EHRC website listing current Commissioners
- ^ Baroness of Battersea reflects on career http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/wandsworthnews/9943512.Baroness_of_Battersea_reflects_on_career_in_new_book/
- ^ Baroness Margaret Prosser of Battersea reflects on career in new book, The Guardian, 22 September 2012
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| Preceded by Tom Burlison |
Treasurer of the Labour Party 1996–2001 |
Succeeded by Jimmy Elsby |
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| Preceded by Jack Adams |
Deputy General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union 1999–2002 |
Succeeded by Tony Woodley |
| Preceded by Leif Mills |
President of the Trades Union Congress 1996 |
Succeeded by Tony Dubbins |
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