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Thomas Dolling Bolton (1841 – 16 December 1906), was a British Liberal Party politician.
Derbyshire North East was a constituency that was dominated by the mining industry. He developed a good working relationship with the Derbyshire Miners Association and arranged, free of charge, for the conveyance of the land for the miners association new building in 1891, and advised them to register under the
Family
He was a son of James Thomas Bolton, of Solihull, Warwickshire and Mary Ratcliffe, daughter of the Rev. William Boughey Dolling.Debretts House of Commons and Judicial Bench - 1901Career
He was a solicitor, admitted in 1866. He was a member of Windsor Town Council. He was a company director of theRhymney
Rhymney (; cy, Rhymni ) is a town and a community in the county borough of Caerphilly, South Wales. It is within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. With the villages of Pontlottyn, Fochriw, Abertysswg, Deri and New Tredegar, Rhymney is ...
Coal and Iron Company.The Derbyshire miners: a study in industrial and social history by James Eccles Williams llen and Unwin, 1962/ref> He served as a Justice of the Peace in Herefordshire. He sat as Liberal MP for Derbyshire North East from the 1886 General Election until his death in December 1906. He was first elected at the 1886 General Election, holding a seat that had been won by a Liberal when it was created in 1885.
Derbyshire North East was a constituency that was dominated by the mining industry. He developed a good working relationship with the Derbyshire Miners Association and arranged, free of charge, for the conveyance of the land for the miners association new building in 1891, and advised them to register under the Trade Union Act 1871
The Trade Union Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vicc 31 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which legalised trade unions for the first time in the United Kingdom. This was one of the founding pieces of legislation in UK labour law, though it has ...
introduced by Gladstone's Liberal Government, so that they could legally hold the property.
In April, 1897, he presented to Parliament petitions in favour of the Eight Hours' Bill from the miners of the North-East Derbyshire division. This petition argued for a maximum working day.
As a supporter of the temperance movement, he was a formidable opponent of the Conservative Government's Licensing Bill.
References
*Who Was Who; http://www.ukwhoswho.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Bolton, Thomas 1841 births 1906 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910