Frederick Frank Jarvis CBE (8 September 1924 – 15 June 2020) was a British trade union leader. He was President of the National Union of Students (NUS) from 1952 to 1954 and General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) from 1975 to 1989. Jarvis served as President of the Trades Union Congress in 1987, the first Oxford graduate to hold that position.

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Jarvis was born in West Ham, London. As a child, he attended Plaistow Secondary School in what was then the County Borough of West Ham in Essex. At the start of World War II, the family moved to Wallasey; he attended Wallasey Grammar School and joined the Progressive Youth Movement. Later in the war, he joined the Army, taking part in the Normandy landings.

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In 1947, he went to University of Liverpool for a Diploma in Social Sciences, and obtained a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Catherine's College, Oxford.

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In 1951, Jarvis fought the safely-Conservative seat of Wallasey on behalf of the Labour Party, and lost to the incumbent, Ernest Marples, by 15,705 votes.

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In 1995, he obtained a first-class Doctorate from the University of Manchester after 10 years of part-time study.

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Jarvis was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours.

Source: Wikipedia