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This blue commemorative plaque records: Ernest Bevin 1881-1951 farm labourer, founder - Transport and General Workers Union 1922, M.P. 1940, Minister of Labour 1940, Foreign Secretary 1945. Lived here 1889-1894.
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Ernest Bevin was a prominent British trade union leader who founded the Transport and General Workers Union in 1922, later serving as Minister of Labour during World War II and Foreign Secretary in the post-war government, significantly influencing British labor policy and foreign affairs.
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