James Haslam (1 April 1842 – 31 July 1913) was a British politician, representing

Chesterfield Chesterfield may refer to: Places Canada * Rural Municipality of Chesterfield No. 261, Saskatchewan * Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut United Kingdom * Chesterfield, Derbyshire, a market town in England ** Chesterfield (UK Parliament constitue ...

as an MP from 1906 to 1913 Before entering Parliament in 1906, Haslam had been a founder memberpainting
Haddon, BBC, retrieved 28 July 2014 and served as a leading official of the Derbyshire Miners’ Association (DMA) since its inception some 30 years earlier. He was returned in 1906 as a

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candidate, but won the two General Elections of 1910 as a

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candidate. He died in 1913 in

aged 71. He currently has a statue outside the former Miner's Offices on

Saltergate Saltergate, officially the Recreation Ground, was the historic home of Chesterfield Football Club, and was in use from 1871 until the club's relocation in July 2010, a 139-year history that made it one of the oldest football grounds in Englan ...

at Chesterfield.

References

*J. E. Williams, ''The Derbyshire Miners A Study in Industrial and Social History'', 1962

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* 1842 births 1913 deaths Liberal-Labour (UK) MPs Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Derbyshire Members of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress Miners' Federation of Great Britain-sponsored MPs UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 Presidents of the Trades Union Congress People from Chesterfield, Derbyshire Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies 19th-century British businesspeople {{UK-trade-unionist-bio-stub