Ray Buckton

Raymond William Buckton (20 October 1922 – 7 May 1995)[1] was general secretary of ASLEF, the rail drivers' trade union in Great Britain.

[1] His father was a farm worker on a large estate, who became a member of the Junior Imperial and Constitutional League (later the Young Conservatives).

He became a full-time ASLEF worker in 1960, working in the North-East, becoming Assistant General Secretary in 1963, based in Hampstead.

During his time as leader of ASLEF in January 1982 he received death threats, and unsightly items pushed through his letterbox.

[2] He married Barbara Langfield (a train driver's daughter - Ray was his fireman) in 1954 in York.