(10 April 1941 – 1 February 2011)
Fyfe was born at Sauchie, Clackmannanshire, the son of George Lennox Fyfe and Elizabeth Struthers Fyfe. He was educated at Alloa Academy and Co-operative College, Loughborough.
Fyfe made his career in the Co-operative movement, initially in Scotland; he was general manager of the Kirriemuir Co-operative Society from 1966-68, and regional manager of the Scottish Co-operative Society from 1968–72. He was group general manager of the Co-operative Wholesale Society from 1972-75. He served as Chief Executive of the Leicestershire Co-operative Society from 1975 to 1995 and, following a merger, held the same position at the Midlands Co-operative Society until 2000. He was a member of the East Midlands Economic Planning Council from 1976-9.
Fyfe served variosuly as director, deputy chairman or chairman of many co-operative businesses from the early 1980s onwards, including Shoefayre, Co-operative Wholesale Society, Co-operative Insurance Society, Co-operative Bank and Unity Trust Bank. He was also a member of the central committee of the International Co-operative Alliance and served as president of the Co-operative Congress in 2001.
He was made a life peer in 2000 as Baron Fyfe of Fairfield,of Sauchie in Clackmannanshire. In the House of Lords he was a member of the European Union Committee, sitting on sub-committees on Environment, Agriculture, Public Health and Consumer Protection until 2003, and on the Internal Market from 2005 until his death.
Fyfe served as a justice of the peace for Perthshire from 1972-5. He was also director of Central Television from 1983-92, and a member of the court of Leicester University.
Lennox Fyfe married Ann Clark in 1965; she died in 1999. The couple had a son (deceased) and a daughter.
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