Enoch Edwards (trade unionist)

Enoch Edwards (April 1852 – 28 June 1912) was a British trade unionist and politician.

Biography edit

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]

References edit

^ ^a ^b 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.)

External links edit

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Enoch Edwards

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Arthur Heath	Member of Parliament for Hanley 1906–1912	Succeeded by R. L. Outhwaite
Trade union offices
Preceded by James Hand	Secretary of the North Staffordshire Miners' Federation 1877–1912	Succeeded by Samuel Finney
Preceded by New position	Treasurer of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain 1889–1904	Succeeded by William Abraham
Preceded by New position	President of the Midland Counties Miners' Federation 1886–1912	Succeeded by Samuel Finney
Preceded by Ben Tillett and Francis Chandler	Trades Union Congress representative to the American Federation of Labour 1902 With: Matthew Arrandale	Succeeded by William Mullin and James O'Grady
Preceded by Ben Pickard	President of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain 1904–1912	Succeeded by Robert Smillie

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[Chisholm_1922,_p.939-1] 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.

[2] 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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