Daniel Merrick
Daniel Merrick (11 May 1827[1] – 19 February 1888) was a British trade unionist.
Born in Leicester, Merrick was educated at St Margaret's Charity School, then worked making stockings.[1] He first came to prominence in the late 1840s, as a supporter of the Chartist movement. In 1858, he founded the Sock and Top Union, a small union representing framework knitters. Around this time, he became involved in a co-operative which Thomas Cook established to sell food, in Humberstone Gate. This proved short-lived, but from 1869 he was a leading figure in two successive Co-operative Hosiery Manufacturing Societies. He also served on the board of the Leicester Co-operative Society, becoming its secretary, and from 1885, its president.[2][3]
In 1871, Merrick was elected to the Leicester School Board, as a
By 1870, membership of the Sock and Top Union had grown to 800, and in 1872, Merrick merged it into the new Leicester and Leicestershire Framework Knitters' Union. He also helped found the
References
- ^ a b Mair, Robert Henry (1872). The School Boards: our educational Parliaments. London: Dean and Son. p. 70.
- ^ a b c Newitt, Ned. "Daniel Merrick". The Who's Who of Radical Leicester. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
- ^ a b c Lancaster, William (1982). Liberalism to Radicalism: the Leicester Working Class 1860-1906 (PDF). Coventry: University of Warwick. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ISBN 9780859679008.