Sir Archibald James Lush (15 September 1900''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007'' – 14 April 1976) was a Welsh educator and civil servant. He was educated at Tredegar Grammar School in his hometown and at

Jesus College, Oxford Jesus College (in full: Jesus College in the University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's Foundation) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship St ...

. On leaving Oxford, he worked for the Carnegie Trust. He was County Youth Organiser for Monmouthshire from 1940, before serving as Chief Inspector of Schools for the county of Monmouthshire from 1944–64. He was then Chairman of the Welsh Hospital Board and was knighted in the Investiture honours in 1969 for social services to Wales. He was a close friend of

Aneurin Bevan Aneurin "Nye" Bevan PC (; 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960) was a Welsh Labour Party politician, noted for tenure as Minister of Health in Clement Attlee's government in which he spearheaded the creation of the British National Health ...

and acted as his political agent for most of his parliamentary life.

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1900 births 1974 deaths Welsh educators Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford Knights Bachelor {{Wales-bio-stub