Hector MacKenzie, Baron MacKenzie of Culkein

Hector Uisdean MacKenzie, Baron MacKenzie of Culkein, born 25 February 1940, is a Scottish nurse who became a trade union official and later a member of the House of Lords. He was schooled at the Isle of Erraid Public School in Argyll, the Aird Public School on the Isle of Lewis, the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway and Portree High School in Skye, then trained at the Leverndale School of Nursing in Glasgow and the West Cumberland School of Nursing in Whitehaven. He was a student nurse at Leverndale Hospital from 1958 to 1961 and at West Cumberland Hospital from 1964 to 1966, and in 1966 he received the Lindsay Robertson Gold Medal as Nurse of the Year. From 1969 he worked for the Confederation of Health Service Employees, serving as its general secretary from 1987 to 1993, and he was associate general secretary of UNISON from 1993 to 2000. He was created a life peer in 1999.