About Fleming Eccles
Lived 1875 – 1925 (aged 49–50). Fleming Eccles was a trade unionist.
Fleming Eccles (1871 or 1872 – March 1925) was a British socialist politician and trade unionist.
Born in Blackburn, Eccles worked as a weaver and was promoted to become an overlooker. He also took an interest in trade unionism, and became a branch secretary for the National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers.
Eccles was also a member of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), serving as financial secretary of one of its Blackburn branches, and also on its national Executive Committee. Through this became active in the Labour Representation Committee, for which he represented on Blackburn Town Council in 1903, By this time, he was active in the reconstituted SDF, formed by supporters of British involvement in World War I.
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British socialist politician and trade unionist
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Fleming Eccles was born in 1875.
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Fleming Eccles died in 1925.
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Fleming Eccles was a trade unionist.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Fleming Eccles. https://biography.guide/fleming-eccles/
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