The Derbyshire Miners' Association was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1880 to represent coal miners in northern Derbyshire, as a split from the South Yorkshire Miners' Association.Keith Burgess, The origins of British industrial relations: the nineteenth century experience, p.198 Although it initially aimed to recruit members from across the county, it only developed strength in the north Derbyshire coalfield, and the separate South Derbyshire Amalgamated Miners' Association was founded in 1883.J. E. Williams, The Derbyshire Miners, p.279 An earlier Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Miners' Association had been founded in the 1860s. By the end of that decade, when it had become moribund, remaining members in south Derbyshire split away to form their own district of the Miners' National Union.Alan R. Griffin, The Miners of Nottinghamshire, vol.I, pp.11-24

In 1945, the union became the Derbyshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers. This was dissolved in 2015, by which point it had only four members.Trade Union Certification Officer, "National Union of Mineworkers (Derbyshire Area)"

Secretaries 1880: James Haslam 1913: W. E. Harvey 1914: Frank Hall 1928: Harry Hicken 1942: Joseph Lynch 1947: Bert Wynn 1966: Herbert Parkin 1973: Peter Heathfield 1984: Gordon Butler 1996: Austin Fairest

Presidents

1880: Richard Bunting 1884: Henry Jarvis 1887: R. P. Carter 1890: William Hallam 1898: Barnet Kenyon 1906: James Martin 1918: William Sewell 1924: Enoch Overton 1939: Samuel Sales 1943: Hugo Street 1946: Samuel Greenough

1952: Herbert Parkin 1966: Dennis Skinner 1970: 1972: Raymond Ellis 1979: C. Hawley 1980s: Alan Gascoyne

Vice-Presidents 1903: Frederick Bonsall 1904: James Martin 1906: Frederick Bonsall 1906: Frank Hall 1907: William Sewell 1918: John Samuel Spencer 1918: Enoch Overton 1924: Samuel Sales 1939: Henry White 1942: Harold Neal 1944: Samuel Greenough 1946: Michael Kane 1947: J. Boam 1951: Herbert Parkin 1952: J. Patilla 1954: F. Peacock 1950s: Tom Swain 1959: Stanley Mellors

1980s: Peter Elliott

Treasurers 1880: William Edwin Harvey 1882: Joseph Windle 1887: Henry Jarvis 1907: Frank Hall 1914: Frank Lee 1918: John Samuel Spencer 1920: Harry Hicken 1928: Oliver Walter Wright 1938: Joseph Lynch 1942: Joseph Kitts 1943: Bert Wynn 1947: Hugo Street 1966: Herbert Dilks

See also The Derbyshire Miners' Holiday Camp

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