Enoch_Edwards_(politician)
Enoch Edwards (trade unionist)
British trade unionist and politician (1852–1912)
Enoch Edwards (April 1852 – 28 June 1912) was a British trade unionist and politician.
Edwards was born at Talk-o'-the Hill Staffordshire on 10 April 1852. He was the son of a pitman, and worked as a boy in a coal-mine.[1]
In 1870 he became treasurer of the North Staffordshire Miners' Association and was elected secretary to the same body in 1877. In 1880 he became president of the Midland Miners' Association; he was later president of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain in 1904.[1]
In 1884 he went to Burslem, where he became a member of the school board and town council in 1886, and later he became alderman and mayor. He was also a member of the Staffordshire County Council. He was elected to Parliament as the Lib-Lab MP for Hanley in 1906. He then was a Labour Party MP in 1909. He died at Southport 28 June 1912 aged 60.[2]
- One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Edwards, Enoch". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 30 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 939.
- Benson, John. "Edwards, Enoch (1852–1912)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47350. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Hanley 1906–1912 |
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Secretary of the North Staffordshire Miners' Federation 1877–1912 |
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Treasurer of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain 1889–1904 |
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President of the Midland Counties Miners' Federation 1886–1912 |
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Preceded by | Trades Union Congress representative to the American Federation of Labour 1902 With: Matthew Arrandale |
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Preceded by | President of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain 1904–1912 |
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