Researching George Kelley
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 3479 people with the Kelley surname? In that year Kelley was ranked number 1206 for popularity in the UK. |
The name George means "A Tiller of the Soil or a Farmer" and is of Greek origin.
Records of George Kelley on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for George Kelley and the Kelley Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 1791 people with the Kelley surname in the UK? Kelley is now ranked number 2479 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 157989 people with the Kelley surname in the USA? Kelley is ranked number 105 for popularity in the USA. |
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George Davy Kelley
George Davy Kelley (1848 – 18 December 1911) was a British trades unionist and Labour politician.
Kelley was born in Ruskington, Lincolnshire in 1848. He became apprenticed to the lithographic printing trade in York. Following his apprenticeship, he worked as a printer in London, Birmingham, Leeds and Bradford. He moved to Manchester to become general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers, formed in 1880.
Kelley was an early proponent of the Labour movement putting forward candidates for election. He became vice-president of the Labour Electoral Association in 1889, and presided at the Labour Electoral Congress held in Hanley in 1890. He was elected to the parliamentary committee of the Trades Union Congress in 1892.
He held the office of secretary of a number of bodies: the Manchester Trades and Labour Council, the Lancashire and Cheshire Federation of Trade Councils, the Manchester and District Board of Conciliation and the National Printing and Kindred Trades Federation.
In 1902 he travelled to New York City as part of Alfred Moseley's Commission of Inquiry into the organisation of Labour. Two years later as vice-chairman of the National Committee of Organised Labour, he campaigned for the introduction of a universal old age pension.
At the 1906 general election he was selected as one of the Labour Representation Committee candidates, and was elected as Member of Parliament for Manchester South West, unseating the sitting Conservative MP. Due to ill-health he retired from parliament at the next general election in January 1910. He died in Manchester in December 1911, aged 63.
Source: George Davy Kelley, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Kelley
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