Claude Bartlett (1897–1 April 1972) was a British trade union leader.
He became President of the union in 1927, which in 1931 was renamed the "Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union", all the while remaining a hospital employee.
[1] He chaired the conference which saw the union merge with others to form the Confederation of Health Service Employees, and was also elected as president of the new union.
[2] In 1948, Bartlett was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress,[1] and in 1960, he became President of the Trades Union Congress,[3] the first holder of that post in many years to remain in non-trade union employment.
[5] Following his retirement, Bartlett lived in Ivybridge in Devon, where he served as a parish councillor.