Thomas Greenall (5 May 1857 – 22 December 1937) was a British Labour Party politician. He was the

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(MP) for

Farnworth Farnworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, southeast of Bolton, 4.3 miles south-west of Bury (7 km), and northwest of Manchester. Historically in Lancashire, Farnworth lies on the River Ir ...

in Lancashire from 1922 to 1929. Born at

Tarbock Tarbock is a village and former civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, in Merseyside, England. It is situated to the south east of Huyton and to the east of Netherley. The village itself is from Liverpool city centre, from ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...

, Greenall began working at the age of nine. He followed his father in working as a

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for twenty years, then became a full-time agent for the

Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation The Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation (LCMF) was a trade union that operated on the Lancashire Coalfield in North West England from 1881 until it became the Lancashire area of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1945. Background Colli ...

(LCMF). In 1906, Greenall became president of the LCMF, and he served on the executive of the

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, and as vice-president of the Lancashire, Cheshire and North Staffordshire Miners' Wages Board. Greenall stood unsuccessfully for Labour in

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at the

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, and then in Farnworth at the

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. He won the seat in 1922, serving until 1929, when he retired.

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* Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress Miners' Federation of Great Britain-sponsored MPs Trade unionists from Lancashire People from the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley 1857 births 1937 deaths UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 {{UK-trade-unionist-bio-stub