Background
Fyfe was born at Sauchie, Clackmannanshire, the son of George Lennox Fyfe and Elizabeth Struthers Fyfe.
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He was educated at Alloa Academy and Company-operative College, Loughborough.
Career
Fyfe made his career in the Company-operative movement, initially in Scotland. He was general manager of the Kirriemuir Company-operative Society from 1966 to 1968, and regional manager of the Scottish Company-operative Society from 1968 to 1972. He was group general manager of the Company-operative Wholesale Society from 1972 to 1975.
He served as Chief Executive of the Leicestershire Company-operative Society from 1975 to 1995, and, following a merger, held the same position at the Midlands Company-operative Society until 2000.
He was created a life peer on 16 May 2000 as Baron Fyfe of Fairfield, of Sauchie in Clackmannanshire. Fyfe served as a Justice of the Peace for Perthshire from 1972 to 1975.
Lennox Fyfe married Ann Clark in 1965. She died in 1999.
Membership
He was a member of the East Midlands Economic Planning Council from 1976 to 1979. He was also a member of the central committee of the International Company-operative Alliance and served as president of the Company-operative Congress in 2001. 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.
He was also director of Central Television from 1983 to 1992, and a member of the court of Leicester University.
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Political Party
Labour Party