Edward Britton

Sir Edward Louis Britton CBE (4 December 1909 – 3 January 2005) was a British trade union leader.

Britton studied at

Bromley Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he edited the Cambridge Review. On graduating, he was unemployed for six months. He found work as a teacher, and immediately joined the National Union of Teachers (NUT). He was exempted from military service during World War II due to his asthma.^[1] In 1951, he became head of Warlingham School in Surrey,^[2] then in 1956 became national president of the NUT.^[1]

In 1960 Britton was recruited as General Secretary of the

Canterbury Christ Church College and served on Acas' central committee.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Sir Edward Britton", The Daily Telegraph, 7 January 2005
^ ^a ^b ^c Tyrrell Burgess, "Obituary: Sir Edward Britton", The Guardian, 7 January 2005

Trade union offices
Preceded by Herbert J. Nursey	President of the National Union of Teachers 1956–1957	Succeeded by John Archbold
Preceded by Ernest Arthur Seeley	General Secretary of the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions 1960–1969	Succeeded by Tom Driver
Preceded by Sir Ronald Gould	General Secretary of National Union of Teachers 1970–1975	Succeeded by Fred Jarvis

[tele-1] "Sir Edward Britton", The Daily Telegraph, 7 January 2005

[guardian-2] Tyrrell Burgess, "Obituary: Sir Edward Britton", The Guardian, 7 January 2005

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