John Bromley (16 July 1876 – 7 September 1945)[1] was an English Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Barrow-in-Furness from 1924 to 1931, and a trade union leader.

At age fourteen (1890) he began working for the Great Western Railway (GWR) as an engine cleaner at Shrewsbury.

[2] Becoming a fireman qualified him to join his trade union, the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF).

An early member of the Independent Labour Party,[2] he unsuccessfully contested the Leeds North East constituency at the 1918 general election.

[2] After his retirement from union leadership in 1936 they moved to Cornwall where he died of a cerebral haemorrhage at his home, Mon Repos, Borras Cross, Liskeard, aged sixty-nine.