Ernie Gordon obituary

My husband, Ernie Gordon, who has died aged 93, was an engineer and trade union official who eventually became an economist at the National Economic Development Office.

He was born in Southwark, London, to Sam, an engineer in a machine-tool factory, and Lilian (nee Darton). The family moved to a new council estate in St Helier, south London, where Ernie went to Glastonbury Road boys school. At the outbreak of the second world war the family moved to Salisbury, Wiltshire, where Ernie followed in his father's footsteps by working for a local engineering firm, Moore Brothers.