Tuesday, 14 November 2017
1733 William Harvey
Constituency : North East Derbyshire 1907-09, 1909-14 ( Labour ) , 1914
William took over from the deceased Thomas Bolton as a Liberal Labour candidate.
William was a former coal miner, working from the age of 10. He started working for the South Yorkshire Miners Association and at one oint was dismissed for union activity. In 1880 he became treasurer of the breakaway Derbyshire Miners Association. In 1891 he was elected to the national executive of the MFGB. He was a Primitive Methodist lay preacher.He was strongly opposed to socialism and syndicalism. He became vice-president of the Labour Electoral Association in 1894. He became a Chesterfield borough councillor in 1897.
William reluctantly obeyed the instruction to take the Labour whip in 1910.
William was Vice-President of the MFGB from 1912.
William was unhappy with the treatment his friend Barnet Kenyon received after the Chesterfield by-election of 1913 and decided to rejoin the Liberals in 1914.
He died a month after his defection aged 61.
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