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James Keir Hardie, the founder of the Labour Party was born on the 15th August 1856 in Newhouse, Scotland. He became an important Scottish politician, a pioneer of socialism in the United Kingdom and an influential trade unionist. He was a crucial political figure who became the first Labour Member of Parliament and established the movement ...
27 de dic. de 2022 · Hardie was one of two politicians – the other being John Burns in Battersea – who at the general election just passed became the first workers to get elected independently to the House of Commons . Hardie was born in Newhouse, Lanarkshire, in 1856. His working life began at the age of seven, and from the age of 10 he worked in the mines.
Hace 2 días · Keir Hardie and Christianity. Keir Hardie was a Christian and a socialist, a man of firm religious conviction, but not a supporter of the orthodox churches, which in his view had strayed from Christian teaching. As Hardie himself said, ‘ Believe, says the preacher. Believe and Act, says the socialist .’.
Keir Hardie (1856-1915) Born illegitimate and in poverty in 1856 and working in the coal mines from the age of ten. Yet Keir Hardie was to become the main founder of the Labour Party. An active trade unionist, he was sacked by the pit owners and became a trade union official, living in Cumnock with his wife, Lillee, where he was active in a ...
When Keir Hardie died in September 1915 one of the strongest tributes came from James Connolly in the Workers’Republic: By the death of Comrade James Keir Hardie labour has lost one of its most fearless and incorruptible champions, and the world one of its highest minded and purest souls…
7 de abr. de 2023 · Keir Hardie’s death. Hardie resigned the Labour Party leadership in 1908 but remained active in many areas, including the campaign for female suffrage. However, he died young – at 59 – of pneumonia in Glasgow on 26 September 1915. Speaking at his funeral, Fred Jowett, who succeeded Hardie as chairman of the Independent Labour Party was ...
Death in 1915. James Keir Hardie, 59, journalist and MP, died on 26 September 1915 at 8 South Park Terrace in Glasgow. The entry in the statutory register for the district of Hillhead in Glasgow gives his usual residence as Lochnorris, Old Cumnock and the cause of death as pneumonia. His father is recorded as David Hardie and the informant was ...
