biography
| name: |
Citrine (of Wembley), Walter McLennan Citrine, Baron
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pronunciation:
[sitreen]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1887–1983)
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| biography:
| Trade union leader, born in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England, UK. An electrician by trade, he became general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (1926–46), and president of the International Federation of Trades Unions (1928–45). Knighted in 1935 and created a peer in 1946, he became chairman of the Central Electricity Authority in 1947. |
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