Enoch Edwards (trade unionist)

Enoch Edwards
Enoch Edwards
Member of Parliament for Hanley
	In office; 8 February 1906 – 28 June 1912
Personal details
Born	10 April 1852; Talk-o'-the Hill, Staffordshire
Died	28 June 1912 (aged 60)
Party	Labour
Other political; affiliations	Liberal-Labour (UK)

Enoch Edwards (10 April 1852 – 28 June 1912) was a British trade unionist and politician.

Biography

Edwards was born at Talk-o'-the Hill Staffordshire on 10 April 1852. He was the son of a pitman, and worked in a coal-mine as a boy.^[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. Edwards was elected to Parliament as the Lib-Lab MP for Hanley in 1906. He moved to Labour Party in 1909 following the direction from his trade union, and was elected as an Labour MP outright 1910, however he maintained support from the local Liberal Party organization during his political career. Edwards died in Southport on 28 June 1912, aged 60.^[2]

References

1 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, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

External links

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] 1 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.

[2] Benson, John. "Edwards, Enoch (1852–1912)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47350. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

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v t e Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) and National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
Presidents	1889 Pickard 1904 En. Edwards 1912 Smillie 1922 Smith 1929 Richards 1931 Eb. Edwards 1932 Lee 1934 J. Jones 1939 Lawther 1954 E. Jones 1960 Machen 1960 Ford 1971 Gormley 1982 Scargill 2002 Lavery 2012 Wilson
Vice-Presidents	1889 Woods 1909 Smillie 1912 Harvey 1914 House 1917 Smith 1922 Walsh 1924 Richards 1929 Eb. Edwards 1931 Lee 1932 J. Jones 1933 Davies 1934 Lawther 1939 Bowman 1950 E. Jones 1954 T. Jones 1961 Collindridge 1963 Bullough 1969 Schofield 1973 McGahey 1987 Thompson 1989 Vacant 1992 Cave 2002 Stanley 2010 Wilson 2012 Thomas
General Secretaries	1889 Ashton 1919 Hodges 1924 Cook 1932 Eb. Edwards 1946 Horner 1959 Paynter 1968 Daly 1984 Heathfield 1992 Scargill 1992 Vacant? 2002 Kemp 2007 Kitchen
Treasurers	1889 En. Edwards 1904 Abraham 1918 Robson 1921 Richardson
Affiliates and areas	Bristol Cleveland Cokemen Colliery Officials and Staffs Cumberland Derbyshire Durham Forest of Dean Kent Lancashire and Cheshire Leicestershire Midland Counties (Cannock Chase North Staffordshire Old Hill Pelsall Shropshire Warwickshire West Bromwich) Northumberland North Wales Nottinghamshire Scotland (Ayrshire Fife and Kinross Lanarkshire Mid and East Lothian Mid and West Lothian Stirling) Somerset South Derbyshire South Wales Yorkshire
Strikes	1893 1912 1926 1969 1972 1974 1984–1985