Personal Life
He married Heather Woolf, a nurse, in 1945 and they had two sons and two daughters, living at Loughton. He was a Methodist local preacher. He had a heart attack in 1976.
He was made OBE in 1966. He retired in 1984, three years early. On his retirement in early May 1984, he made the following statement - "There are places to go, books to read, flowers to smell and trees to look at. I would like to walk through Epping Forest". He had been made a member of the Privy Council in 1976 and was made a life peer as Baron Murray of Epping Forest, of Telford in the County of Shropshire in 1985. He died in hospital in 2004 from emphysema and pneumonia.
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Vic Feather |
Assistant General Secretary of the TUC 1969–1973 |
Succeeded by Norman Willis |
| Preceded by Vic Feather |
General Secretary of the TUC 1973–1984 |
Succeeded by Norman Willis |
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