Derbyshire Miners' Association Explained

Derbyshire Miners' Association
Location Country:United Kingdom
Affiliation:Miners' Federation of Great Britain
Members:36,087 (1907[1])
Founded:1880
Dissolved:31 March 2015
Merged Label:Dissolved
Split From:South Yorkshire Miners' Association
Headquarters:Saltergate, Chesterfield

The Derbyshire Miners' Association was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1880 to represent coal miners in northern Derbyshire, as a split from the South Yorkshire Miners' Association.[2] Although it initially aimed to recruit members from across the county, it only developed strength in the north Derbyshire coalfield, and the separate South Derbyshire Amalgamated Miners' Association was founded in 1883.[3]

In 1945, the union became the Derbyshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers. This was dissolved in 2015, by which point it had only four members.[4]

Secretaries

1880: James Haslam

1913: W. E. Harvey

1914: Frank Hall

1928: Harry Hicken

1942: Joseph Lynch

1947: Bert Wynn

1966: Herbert Parkin

1973: Peter Heathfield

1984: Gordon Butler

1996: Austin Fairest

Presidents

1880: Richard Bunting

1884: Henry Jarvis

1887: R. P. Carter

1890: William Hallam

1898: Barnet Kenyon

1906: James Martin

1918: William Sewell

1924: Enoch Overton

1939: Samuel Sales

1943: Hugo Street

1946: Samuel Greenough

1952: Herbert Parkin

1966: Dennis Skinner

1970:

1972: Raymond Ellis

1979: C. Hawley

1980s: Alan Gascoyne

Vice-Presidents

1903: Frederick Bonsall

1904: James Martin

1906: Frederick Bonsall

1906: Frank Hall

1907: William Sewell

1918: John Samuel Spencer

1918: Enoch Overton

1924: Samuel Sales

1939: Henry White

1942: Harold Neal

1944: Samuel Greenough

1946: Michael Kane

1947: J. Boam

1951: H. E. Parkin

1952: J. Patilla

1954: F. Peacock

1950s: Tom Swain

1959: Stanley Mellors

1980s: Peter Elliott

Treasurers

1880: William Edwin Harvey

1882: Joseph Windle

1887: Henry Jarvis

1907: Frank Hall

1914: Frank Lee

1918: John Samuel Spencer

1920: Harry Hicken

1928: Oliver Walter Wright

1938: Joseph Lynch

1942: Joseph Kitts

1943: Bert Wynn

1947: Hugo Street

1966: Herbert Dilks

See also

References

  1. Book: Report on Trade Unions in 1905-1907. 1909. Board of Trade. London. 82-101.
  2. Keith Burgess, The origins of British industrial relations: the nineteenth century experience, p.198
  3. J. E. Williams, The Derbyshire Miners, p.279
  4. [Trade Union Certification Officer]