Frederick Hall (1855 – 18 April 1933) was a British

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or Lib-Lab then Labour Party politician who was an official of the

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Background

He was a son of John and Hannah Hall. He was educated at night-school for one year, and self-taught subsequently. In 1878 he married Ann Maria Edwards, a daughter of William Edwards.''The Liberal Year Book'', 1907

Work and Trade Unionism

At the age of 9 he started working in a coal mine. He worked at the

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.''Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench'', 1916 In 1878 he became a check-weighman. In the same year he became Treasurer of the Yorkshire Miners' Association. In 1898 he stopped working as a check-weighman. In 1904 he stopped being the Association's Treasurer and became its Miners' Agent.

Politics

He was elected to the

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County Council, serving for 12 years. He took an interest in local education, serving for 18 years as a member of the Rawmarsh School Board, including a period of 9 years as its Chairman. He was the Liberal candidate for the Normanton Division of West Yorkshire at the 1905 Normanton by-election. He was elected to the

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at the by-election, following the death of the sitting

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(MP), William Parrott. In 1909 the

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instructed him and all other MPs sponsored by their local miners associations to take the Labour Party whip and seek re-election in 1910 as a Labour Party candidate, which he did. He served as a

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in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was a Grand Master of the British United Order of Oddfellows. In 1915 his YMA colleague

John Wadsworth John Wadsworth (1850 – 10 July 1921) was a British trade unionist and Liberal or Lib-Lab politician. Born in West Melton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Wadsworth worked as a coal miner and was elected checkweighman. He joined the Yorksh ...

re-took the Liberal whip in the House of Commons, and there is some evidence that Hall may have done likewise. He contested the 1918 General Election as a Labour Party candidate.''British parliamentary election results 1918-1949'', Craig, F.W.S. After the 1918 General Election he again took the Labour party whip, and soon after he became a Labour Whip. He continued as Whip, serving as a Government Whip while Labour were in office in 1924.''The Times House of Commons'', 1929 He represented the constituency for 28 years, until his death in 1933, aged 78.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Frederick Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Liberal-Labour (UK) MPs Members of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress Miners' Federation of Great Britain-sponsored MPs UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1931–1935 1855 births 1933 deaths