Fred Jarvis

Who is Fred Jarvis?

Frederick Frank Jarvis is a retired British trade union leader. He was President of the National Union of Students from 1952 to 1954 and General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers from 1975 to 1989. Jarvis served as President of the Trades Union Congress in 1987, the first Oxford graduate to hold that position.

As a child Jarvis attended Plaistow Secondary School in what was then the County Borough of West Ham in Essex. He went to University of Liverpool for a Diploma in Social Sciences, and obtained a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Catherine's College, Oxford. He married Anne Colegrove, herself a vice-president of the NUS, in 1954.

Jarvis remains a lifelong supporter of West Ham United Football Club.

A keen photographer, Jarvis had an exhibition of his work at the TUC Centre in 2010 in aid of North London Hospice.