The Henson Journals

[James] Keir Hardie

[James] Keir Hardie (1856-1915; ODNB), a founder member of both the Independent Labour Party, 1893, and the Labour Representation Committee, 1900; MP (Lab) West Ham South, 1892-1915; first chairman, Parliamentary Labour Party, 1906-8; suffragist and pacifist; critic of British involvement in the First World War.

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