Derbyshire Miners' Association

Derbyshire Miners' Association

Founded	1880
Date dissolved	1945
Merged into	National Union of Mineworkers
Country	United Kingdom

Former Derbyshire Miners' Association offices in Chesterfield.

The Derbyshire Miners' Association was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1880 to represent coal miners in northern Derbyshire, as a split from the South Yorkshire Miners' Association.^[1] Although it initially aimed to recruit members from across the county, it only developed strength in the north Derbyshire coalfield, and the separate South Derbyshire Amalgamated Miners' Association was founded in 1883.^[2]

In 1945, the union became the Derbyshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers.

Secretaries

1880: James Haslam

1913: W. E. Harvey

1914: Frank Hall

1928: Harry Hicken

1942:

1950s: Bert Wynn

1973: Peter Heathfield

1984:

Austin Fairest

Presidents

1880: Richard Bunting

1885: Barnet Kenyon

1906: James Martin

1920s: Enoch Overton

Hugo Street

1946: Samuel Greenough

1966: Dennis Skinner

1970:

1972: Raymond Ellis

1979:

Alan Gascoyne

Vice-President

1903: Frederick Bonsall

1904: James Martin

1906: Frederick Bonsall

1906: Frank Hall

1907: William Sewell

1920s: Samuel Sales

1938: Henry White

1942: Harold Neal

1944: Samuel Greenough

1946: Michael Kane

References

1. ^ Keith Burgess, The origins of British industrial relations: the nineteenth century experience, p.198
2. ^ J. E. Williams, The Derbyshire Miners, p.279