Hector Uisdean MacKenzie, Baron MacKenzie of Culkein (born 25 February 1940) is a
Scottish nurse and former
trade union
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official.
The son of George MacKenzie and Williamina Sutherland was educated on the
Isle of Erraid Public School, in
Argyll
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, the Aird Public School on the
Isle of Lewis
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, the
Nicolson Institute
The Nicolson Institute ( Gaelic: ''Àrd-sgoil MhicNeacail'') in Stornoway, is the largest school in the Western Isles, Scotland.
The Nicolson is the only six-year secondary school in Lewis. With the Sir E. Scott School in Harris, they provide ...
in
Stornoway and the
Portree High School
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in
Skye
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. He went then to the Leverndale School of Nursing in
Glasgow
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and the
West Cumberland
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School of Nursing in
Whitehaven
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.
MacKenzie was student nurse at the
Leverndale Hospital
Leverndale Hospital is a mental health facility at Crookston, Glasgow, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. The , which has been taken out of use, is Category A listed.
History
The hospital, which was designed by Malcolm Star ...
from 1958 to 1961 and
West Cumberland Hospital
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from 1964 to 1966. Since 1969, he had worked for the
Confederation of Health Service Employees
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History
The union was founded in 1946 with the merger of the Mental Hospital and Institutional ...
, first as assistant regional secretary, then from 1970 to 1974 as regional secretary for
Yorkshire
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and
East Midlands
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. He was national officer from 1974 to 1983, assistant general secretary from 1983 to 1987 and
general secretary
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from 1987 to 1993.
MacKenzie is a member of
UNISON
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Definition
Unison or per ...
, had been associate general secretary between 1993 and 2000.
In 1966 he received the
Lindsay Robertson Gold Medal for Nurse of the Year, and in 1999 he was created a
life peer
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as Baron MacKenzie of Culkein, of Assynt in
Highland
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Lord MacKenzie of Culkein was married to Anna Morrison from 1961 to 1991; they have one son and three daughters.
References
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1940 births
Living people
General Secretaries of the Confederation of Health Service Employees
British trade union leaders
Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress
Presidents of the Trades Union Congress
Mackenzie of Culkein
People educated at Portree High School
People educated at the Nicolson Institute
Scottish nurses
Life peers created by Elizabeth II
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