30 June 2009
With great sadness we report the death of former Labour councillor Granville Baldwin on 27 June.Granville represented Countess Wear and Priory wards on the City Council and, in 2002, he became Exeter's first Lord Mayor - the honour of having a "Lord Mayor" being bestowed on the City by the Queen during her Golden Jubilee. A year before, when he was made Mayor of Exeter, he revealed that he had cancer, and during his term of office he raised £24,000 for his mayoral charity - Hospiscare.
Labour Group Leader Pete Edwards said: "Granville was a true socialist of the old school. He spent all his working life helping workers in the garment industry. He will be sorely missed by everyone, not just for the great work he did while a councillor and Lord Mayor but also because he was such a wonderful character. All our sympathy goes to his family."
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