Peter Smith (trade unionist)
Peter Anthony Smith was general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in the United Kingdom from 1988 to 2002.Biography
Peter Smith was an English teacher at Trinity School of John Whitgift from 1966 to 1974.
At the beginning of his tenure, the ATL was a small trade union in a sector traditionally dominated by two large unions, the National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers.
Smith is credited with tripling the membership of the organisation. He was appointed a CBE in 2003 for services to education.
He is survived by his wife, Anne, whom he married in 1961, and by their son and daughter.
