James Haslam

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For the James Haslam who founded Pilot Corporation, see James Haslam Jr.

James Haslam (born in 1842) was elected for Chesterfield in 1906 as a Liberal MP. He had served as a leading official of the Derbyshire Miners’ Association (DMA) since its inception some 30 years earlier.

He also went on to win at the two General Elections of 1910 as a Labour candidate.

He died in 1913 in Chesterfield aged 71.

He currently has a statue outside the former Miner’s Offices on Saltergate at Chesterfield.

Source: The Derbyshire Miners A Study in Industrial and Social History by J.E. Williams 1962