Alan Jinkinson

Alan Raymond Jinkinson (27 February 1935 – 6 November 2022) was a British trade union leader.

Jinkinson was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire on 27 February 1935, and was educated at King Edward VII School in the city. After national service in the Royal Signals, he took a place at Keble College, Oxford, gaining a degree in history, and then became, first, an accountant, and then a teacher, before joining the public service trade union NALGO (National and Local Government Officers' Association) in its education department in 1960. Jinkinson also stood for Labour at Hendon North in the 1964 general election, losing but reducing the Conservative majority.