John Bromley

John Bromley (16 July 1876 – 7 September 1945) 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.

Early life and railway career He was born at Haston Grove, Hadnall, Shropshire, son of Charles Alfred Bromley, a dyer, and his wife Martha Helen nee Wellings, and baptised at Hadnall on 6 August 1876.

He was educated at elementary schools until the age of twelve (1888), when he began working successively as a country post boy, a chemist's errand boy, and assistant on W.H. Smith & Sons' bookstall at Shrewsbury railway station. At age fourteen (1890) he began working for the Great Western Railway (GWR) as an engine cleaner at Shrewsbury. In 1892 he became an assistant fireman, and a regular fireman in 1896. He was a registered train driver in the GWR until 1905. In January 1924 he led a nine-day national locomotivemen's strike against worsening working conditions.

He was a founder member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1921.

Personal and later life Bromley married in Shrewsbury, on 6 March 1901, Ann Hall (1880–1953). 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. He was cremated at Efford Crematorium, Plymouth, Devon.