David Edward Lea, Baron Lea of Crondall OBE is a British Labour politician. Lord Lea was educated at Farnham Grammar School and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he studied Economics. He joined the TUC in 1964 as a research officer, became Head of the Economic Department, then Assistant General Secretary from 1978 until 1999, when he joined the House of Lords. Whilst at the TUC, he was secretary of the TUC-Labour Party Liaison Committee from 1972 to 1994, a member of the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth from 1974 until 1979, the Delors Committee on Economic and Social Concepts in the Community 1977 to 1979, the Kreisky Commission on Unemployment in Europe 1986?89, a member of the Working Party on Economic and Social Concepts in the EEC and a Vice President of the European TUC. Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1978 New Year Honours, Lea was made a Labour Life peer taking the title Baron Lea of Crondall, of Crondall in the County of Hampshire on 20 July 1999. 

November 2nd, 1937 in (Age 87)