Sir Andrew Naesmith CBE (24 July 1888 – 23 October 1961) was a British trade union leader.
Born in Bonnyrigg in Midlothian, Naesmith grew up in Lancashire, where he worked in a cotton mill,[1] initially as a half-timer.
[2] He served with the Black Watch during World War I as a quartermaster-sergeant.
[1] Naesmith joined his local weavers' union at the age of fifteen, and rose rapidly to become general secretary of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association in 1927.
He resigned in 1949 due to work pressures, but instead accepted appointment as a Governor of the Bank of England.