Enoch Edwards

Enoch Edwards

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

Edwards was born at Talk-o'-the Hill and became a coal miner as a child. He was elected to Staffordshire County Council before becoming President of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain in 1904, and then MP for Hanley in 1906. .

References

* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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