Frederick James Hancock

Last updated

Frederick James Hancock (born 1873) was a British trade union leader.

Hancock was born in Talke in Staffordshire. He attended the Butt Lane National School, and then spent some time studying at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. [1]

Hancock worked as a coal miner in Staffordshire, and became active in the North Staffordshire Miners' Association, serving as its financial secretary from 1914. [1] This role brought him greater prominence in the movement, and in 1926 and 1927 he served on the executive of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. [2] In the early 1930s, Samuel Finney, the general secretary of the North Staffordshire Miners, retired, and Hancock won the election to succeed him. He was also elected to succeed Finney as president of the Midland Miners' Federation, to which the North Staffordshire Miners were affiliated. [1] He frequently attended the Trades Union Congress, and in 1937 was its delegate to the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada. [3]

Hancock retired in 1941. [4] In his spare time, he served as a Methodist lay preacher. [1]

Related Research Articles

Walter Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine

Walter McLennan Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine, was one of the leading British and international trade unionists of the twentieth century and a notable public figure. Yet, apart from his renowned guide to the conduct of meetings, ABC of Chairmanship, he has been little spoken of in the history of the labour movement. More recently, labour historians have begun to re-assess Citrine's role.

Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Australian politician

Gordon Brown was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1932 to 1965, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was President of the Senate from 1943 to 1951.

Jim Slater was British trade union leader.

Cyril Thomas Howe Plant, Baron Plant, CBE was a British trade unionist.

Joseph O'Hagan, often known as Joe O'Hagan, was a British trade union leader.

Joseph Arthur Hall was a British trade unionist.

William Bailey was a British trade unionist.

David Gilmour (trade unionist) Scottish trade unionist

David R. Gilmour was a Scottish trade unionist.

Abe Moffat

Abraham Moffat was a Scottish trade unionist and communist activist. He was elected repeatedly to high office in the trade unions and represented the union on government coal boards. He held major union offices: President of the National Union of Scottish Mine Workers; member of the Executive Committee of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain; Vice-Chairman Scottish Regional Coal Board; and member National Coal Board. He served as president of the union from 1942 to his retirement in 1961, when he was succeeded by his younger brother Alex Moffat, also an activist.

Alexander B. Moffat was a Scottish trade unionist and communist activist who was President of the Scottish Trades Union Congress and the Scottish Mineworkers Union.

James Rowan was a British trade union leader.

William Bayliss was a British trade unionist.

Bartholomew Walsh Welsh trade unionist

Bartholomew Walsh was a Welsh trade unionist.

Benjamin Dean was a British trade union leader.

William Owen was a British trade unionist, journalist and political activist.

Joseph Toyn was a British trade unionist.

William Brown was a British coal miner who became a prominent trade unionist.

Joseph Crawford (trade unionist) British trade unionist

Joseph Crawford, OBE was a British trade unionist.

The North Staffordshire Miners' Federation was a trade union representing miners in the area of Stoke-on-Trent, located in Staffordshire, in England.

George Henry Rowlinson was a British trade unionist.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 An alphabetical arrangement of Methodist Ministers and Probationers. p. 324.
  2. ↑ Robin Page Arnot, The Miners, vol.2, p.546-549
  3. ↑ "Delegates to Trades and Labor Congress of Canada". Annual Report of the Trades Union Congress: 9. 1956.
  4. ↑ "[untitled article]". The Sentinel. 21 October 1941. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
Trade union offices
Preceded by General Secretary of the North Staffordshire Miners' Association
1930s–1941		Succeeded by
Hugh Leese
Preceded by President of the Midland Miners' Federation
1930s–1941		Succeeded by
Arthur Baddeley?
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.