Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe (born 21 June 1942) is a British trade unionist, and

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Member of the House of Lords. The son of John Brooke and Mary Colbeck, Brooke was educated in

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. From 1964 to 1982, he worked as Assistant Secretary of the

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, from 1982 to 1988 as Deputy General Secretary and as

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from 1988 to 1995. In 1996 Brooke became Joint General Secretary of Public Services Tax and Commerce Union and held this post until 1998. He was Member of the General Council of the

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(TUC) between 1989 and 1996 and between 1993 and 1996 of the TUC Executive Committee. Brooke is a Member of the

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(PCS), the successor to the

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union he led. On 23 October 1997, he was created a

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as Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe, ''of

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in the County of

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''. He sits on the Labour benches. In the same year he became Trustee of the

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. He has been a trustee and Council member of Community Service Volunteers (CSV) and is a trustee of

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. He served as a non-executive director of NATS (formerly National Air Traffic Services) from 2001 until 200

In 2020 he became the Patron of

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. Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe has been married to Lorna Hopkin Roberts since 1967.

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October 2016 1942 births Labour Party (UK) life peers Life peers created by Elizabeth II Living people General secretaries of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress {{UK-trade-unionist-bio-stub