Enoch Edwards (April 1852 - 28 June 1912) was a British trade unionist and politician.
Edwards was born at Talk-o'-the Hill and became a coal miner as a child. He was elected to Staffordshire County Council before becoming President of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain in 1904 and then a Lib=Lab MP for Hanley in 1906. He then was a Labour Party MP in 1909.
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