Mason was Father of the Chapel for the National Union of Journalists on Newsnight. He is a supporter of Leigh Centurions rugby league club and Manchester United F.C. He is married to nurse Jane Bruton. He is an atheist.
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Some unions (e.g. Transport and General Workers' Union) number their branches as well as naming them. In the British printing industry, union branches are traditionally divided into sub- branches known as "chapels", led by the Father of the Chapel. Each chapel represents members in a single printing works or department of a larger works.
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Gray was born in Manchester, England in 1930, the son of Henry Hackett Gray. His grandfather, Richard Hackett, was Father of the Chapel printer at the Manchester Guardian and President of the Typographical Association. Having trained for the priesthood at King's College London and St Boniface Missionary College, Warminster. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by the University of Manchester in 1984.
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1961 By Elections By this point, he was also Chairman of the Scottish Divisional Council of the ILP."I.L.P. May Contest Bridgeton", Glasgow Herald, 7 June 1961, p.7 Soon afterwards, he began working as a sub-editor with the Glasgow Herald, quickly becoming Father of the Chapel of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). In 1966, he was appointed as the full-time NUJ official for Scotland and Northern England, serving until 1975.
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Lloyd Turner (2 October 1938 - 12 September 1996) was a newspaper editor in the United Kingdom. Born in Australia, Turner worked on the Newcastle Morning Herald before moving to England to work as a journalist at the Manchester Evening News. He subsequently relocated to London to work on the Daily Express, where he became father of the chapel of the newspaper's National Union of Journalists. During this period, he founded the 84 Club, a drinking club, with Peter Tory.
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In 1818, becoming senior gentleman or father of the Chapel Royal, he was excused further duty and attendance. Sale sang as soloist and in concerted music at many concerts and cathedral festivals. From 1789 to 1814 his name appeared in the programmes of the Concerts of Antient Music. He was also interested in glee-singing: he conducted the Glee Club, and in 1785 became honorary member, and in 1812 secretary, of the Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club.
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Edwin Smith (died 1945) was a British trade union leader. Smith worked as a printers' assistant for various magazines and newspapers. He joined the Printers' Labourers' Union, and became Father of the Chapel firstly at The Field, then at Queen, and finally at the Daily Mail. In 1897, he became the chair of the union, and argued for it to change its name to reflect the fact that most of its members were skilled workers who would not generally be regarded as labourers.
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In addition, he worked for the Sunday Mirror, where he subedited the column written by Woodrow Wyatt. Turner also became active in the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), and by 1990 was Father of the Chapel at the Mirror. That year, he was elected as general secretary of the NUJ, but he was sacked the following year, on the charge that he had defied the union's own policy on the merger of print unions. In protest, Turner resigned from the union and formed the rival British Association of Journalists, which attracted much of the staff from the Mirror.
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The Printing and Kindred Industries Union (PKIU) was an Australian trade union which existed between 1966 and 1995. It represented production workers in the printing industry, including compositing, typesetting, letterpress printing, lithographic plate-making, electrotyping, stereotyping and bookbinding, and the manufacture of paper and cardboard products, such as paper bags, envelopes, cardboard boxes and cartons. Approximately half of all members were qualified tradespeople, with the remainder semi-skilled or unskilled workers. As in many other printing trade unions, the union members in each workplace were known as the 'Chapel', and the senior union delegate as the 'Father of the Chapel', while other elected officials were referred to as 'brothers'.
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