Frederick James Hancock
Trade union leader
About Frederick James Hancock
Lived 1873 – 1963 (aged 89–90).
Frederick James Hancock (1 October 1873 – 9 August 1963) was a British trade union leader.
Hancock was born in Talke, Staffordshire. He attended the Butt Lane National School and spent some time studying at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.
Hancock began working as a coal miner in Staffordshire at age 14, In the early 1930s, Samuel Finney, the general secretary of the North Staffordshire Miners, retired, and Hancock won the election to succeed him. He was also elected to succeed Finney as president of the Midland Miners' Federation, to which the North Staffordshire Miners were affiliated.
Hancock retired in 1941. In his spare time, he served as a Methodist lay preacher.
He died in 1963 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, aged 89.
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Frederick James Hancock was born in 1873.
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Frederick James Hancock died on 9 August 1963.
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