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

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, 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 (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 Leigh at the January 1910 United Kingdom general election, and then in Farnworth at the 1918 United Kingdom general election. 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