John Bothwell (trade unionist)

John Gibb Bothwell OBE (1909 or 1910 – 1994) was a British trade union leader.

Bothwell became a junior clerk with the London and North Eastern Railway when he was sixteen years old.

He joined the Railway Clerks' Association, and from 1939 began working full-time in its Scottish office.

[1] In 1960, Bothwell was elected as assistant general secretary of the union, by now renamed as the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA).

[1][2] However, he remained active as a member of the Industrial Arbitration Board, for which work he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.