Elijah Hallam (1848 – 3 March 1922) was a British miner from

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in the north of England. He is notable as being, along with Frederick Vickers, the first recipient of the Life Saving Medal of the Most Venerable Order of St John. On 6 September 1875, at "imminent risk" to his own life, he saved 6 fellow workmen in great peril who were suspended in a broken cage in the shaft of Albert Colliery near

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. Sir Edmund Lechmere, Bt presented him with the medal at a public meeting at Whittington Moor on 18 November 1875.J L. Bronstein, Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-century Britain, Stanford University Press, 2008, p.76

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hallam, Elijah English miners 1848 births 1922 deaths