Anne Gibson, Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen, (née Tasker; 10 December 1940 – 20 April 2018) was a British

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peer and author of several pamphlets about industrial laws. The daughter of Harry and Jessie Tasker, she was educated at Market Rasen Junior School and

Caistor Grammar School Caistor Grammar School is a selective school with academy status in the English town of Caistor in the county of Lincolnshire, England. The school was founded in 1630. It has since grown to be one of the most respected and highest performing sch ...

in Lincolnshire. She was further educated at the Chelmsford College of Further Education and the

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, where she graduated with a

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in government in 1976. Gibson worked first as secretary from 1956 to 1959 and then as bank cashier until 1966. Between 1966 and 1970, she was organiser for Saffron Walden Labour Party. In 1976 and 1977, she was employed by the ''House Magazine''. From 1977 to 1987, Gibson was assistant secretary of the Organisation and Industrial Relations Department of the

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(TUC) and from 1987 to 2000 national secretary of

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(MSF). From 1989 to 2000, she was member of the

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and from 1991 to 1998 of the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC). Between 1993 and 1996, she was also member of the Department of Employment Advisory Group for Older Workers and between 1996 and 2000 of the

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. She was a member of AMICUS and of the Emily Pankhurst Trust. Between 1996 and 2001, she was chair of the

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Committee on Violence at Work. She was also a member of the Occupational Health and Safety Commission and the Committee on Health and Safety. Gibson was further a member of the Bilbao Agency. She was the president of the

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(ROSPA) from 2004 until 2008. In 1998, she was made an Officer of the

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(OBE) and on 9 May 2000, she became a

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with the title Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen, of

Market Rasen Market Rasen ( ) is a town and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase runs through it east to west, approximately north-east from Lincoln, east from Gainsborough, 14 miles (23 km) west of Louth ...

in the County of

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. In 2001, she received the Distinguished Service Award for work in health and safety of the

(ROSPA). In addition, Baroness Gibson was the Honorary President of 2168 (Yeadon) Squadron, Air Training Corps and sat on the Air Cadet Council as a representative of the Air League. Gibson married twice. In 1962, firstly John Donald Gibson 1962 and in 1988 secondly John Bartell. She had a daughter by her first husband and two grandchildren anď two step grandchildren. She died on 20 April 2018 at the age of 77.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gibson, Anne 1940 births 2018 deaths Alumni of the University of Essex British trade unionists Life peeresses created by Elizabeth II Gibson of Market Rasen Officers of the Order of the British Empire Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress People educated at Caistor Grammar School