William Inskip

He became active in the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO), of which he was elected treasurer in 1880,[1] then general secretary in 1886.

[2] However, he became increasingly politically isolated, as other leading figures in the union shifted to supporting independent labour representation.

[1] Inskip and Charles Freak, also a leader of NUBSO, were part of an antisemitic campaign against Jewish shoe makers.

However Joseph Finn, Woolf Wess and Lewis Lyons organised amongst jewish trade unionists to protest against Inskip and Freak.

In 1898, he travelled to the United States as part of a TUC delegation, but on his return, he contracted tuberculosis, and he died in 1899, aged 47.