Alfred Henry Gill

Alfred Henry Gill (3 December 1856 – 27 August 1914)[1] was an English Labour Member of Parliament for Bolton.

He started work in a cotton mill at the age of 10, became an active campaigner for workers' rights and rose to be General Secretary of the Bolton Operative Spinners Association, a locally important trade union.

In 1906 he entered Parliament as the junior MP for Bolton, one of the 29 original members of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

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Gill in the mid 1900s
Grave of Alfred Gill, Heaton Cemetery, Bolton