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Obituary: John Graham Warwick, July 25 1947 - January 16 2023
We have lost a great friend and comrade, much loved by wife Linda and Keith, Rhona, Anna and Lewis
Graham Warwick, 1947-2023
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BORN in Govan, Glasgow, Graham left school at 15 serving his apprenticeship in Alexander Stephen’s shipyard on the Clyde.
Like his father, Graham joined the YCL and as a very young man was elected shop steward at Weir’s Pumps, Glasgow’s giant engineering company. Identified as a natural leader and orator among his peers he was encouraged and supported by some of the major figures in the Scottish trade union movement at that time. Graham’s involvement included playing a key role in the 1970 Westminster election campaign of Jimmy Reid.
Graham returned to education, studying at night school and sitting his Highers at the age of 28, before attending Strathclyde University where he received an honours degree in sociology.
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