The son of a Welsh coal miner who later became a union official and Labour MP, Roy Jenkins served with distinction in World War II.

He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist.

This would have included two men convicted of murder ( later reduced to manslaughter ) for the killing of David Wilkie, a taxi driver driving a non-striking miner to work in South Wales during the strike.

In 1883 the son of an Irish immigrant, Patrick Jay Hurley, grew up struggling as a miner in the nearby town of Lehigh, Ok. Hurley befriended an Indian boy who later became principal chief of the Choctaws and was allowed to use the family library for his studies.

He did not take the Eleven plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School ( now called the Elmhirst School ), leaving at 15 to become a coal miner at Woolley Colliery from 1953, where he became the pit delegate ten years later.

Side-crimped pasties gave rise to the suggestion that the miner might have eaten the pasty holding the thick edge of pastry, which was later discarded, thereby ensuring that his dirty fingers ( possibly including traces of arsenic ) did not touch food or his mouth.

Busby became a coal miner and later a mineral surveyor and civil engineer in Scotland, and was employed on various public work projects, including the provision of a water-supply for Leith fort.

Initially, he worked as a miner, as his father had done in Ireland, and then briefly as a publican, but he later ran his own successful printing business which specialised in publishing leftist political works, many of which Wheatley wrote himself such as

Born in Lanarkshire he was the son of a miner, which he would later become himself at the age of 12 after receiving little formal education.

Their father was employed as a miner and later as a baker ’ s assistant.

He began his career with the National Coal Board as a miner in 1958, becoming a pit electrician from 1967 until his election to parliament twenty years later.

Notable examples of social mobility include Pierre Bérégovoy who started working at the age of 16 as a metal worker and later became Prime Minister of France, Ramsay MacDonald the illegitimate son of a farm labourer and a housemaid who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Sir Joseph Cook, an Englishman who had no schooling and worked as a coal miner at the age of nine and went on to become Prime Minister of Australia.

Although a member of the NUM he broke ranks during the 1984 miners strike and later came to national attention when he stood up at the Conservative Party Conference to announce that he was a working miner.

Annabelle's Affairs ( 1931 ) was a farce with MacDonald as a sophisticated New York playgirl who doesn ’ t recognize her own miner husband, played by Victor MacLaglen, when he turns up 5 years later.

The daughter of James Lee, a miner ( who later gave up work in the mines to run a hotel ) and Euphemia Grieg, she inherited her father's socialist inclinations, and like him joined the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ).

His father, John, was a coal miner, but rather than spend his life working down the pit, the young Herbert was bright enough to win a place at Sheffield Technical College ( later to become part of the University of Sheffield ), where he studied mining engineering.

His father worked as a coal miner and later as the assistant manager of the arena in Port Hood when the mine closed while his mother was a school teacher.

Joseph JuneauJoseph Juneau ( 1833 or 1836 – 1899 ) was a miner and prospector from Canada who was born in the Quebec town of Saint-Paul-l ' Ermite ( later renamed Le Gardeur and now incorporated into the city of Repentigny ) to François Xavier Juneau dit Latulippe and Marguerite Thiffault Juneau.

Sadly the miner died five weeks later from sepsis.

His father John Lawson was a sailor and miner who had begun working in a colliery by the age of nine, sailed round the world by eleven, and later served in the Royal Naval Reserve.

He began work as a miner at Charters Towers, and later was elected first president of the Miners ' Union.

Six months later, through a chance meeting, she met Thomas James, a miner who had lost his sight in an industrial accident and who had become an itinerant bllind missionary.

Her father was a miner, who would later turn to painting and decorating ; her mother worked in a shoe shop.

Paisley had left school in 1933 to become a miner, and was later apprenticed as a bricklayer before turning to professional football.

Son to miner, William Ewing, Harry served as a Member of Parliament for 21 years before being made a life peer.

* D. J. Williams ( politician ) ( David James Williams, 1897 – 1972 ), British miner and checkweighman who became a Labour Party Member of Parliament

The small, pipe-smoking, former coal miner first went down the mines at the age of fourteen and remained in the coal industry until he was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the Barnsley constituency at a by-election in 1953.

Other miner ’ s leaders entered Parliament via the same route.

On taking his seat, he undertook publicly to stand down from Parliament at the age of 65 ( therefore in 1997 ), just as he would have retired as a miner.

A former miner, he is one of the few MPs to have been a manual worker before entering Parliament.

He worked as a miner from 1969 until 1989 at Eppleton Colliery near Hetton-le-Hole, then as a care worker until he entered Parliament.

Among notable current and former residents of Riley County are former Governor John W. Carlin, General Glen Edgerton and millionaire miner Horace A. W. Tabor.

The city is named after John Long, a prominent miner who came to Grant County in 1862 during the Canyon City rush of that same year.

* Powers Hapgood, a Harvard-educated miner, labor leader and organizer for the United Mine Workers Union of America, helped lead the Somerset County Coal Strike of 1922-23, a bitter sixteen-month effort which draw significant national press and political attention.

Bell was born in County Durham in 1938, the son of a miner.

Often these can have local significance, such as the fisherman and the tin miner granted to Cornwall County Council, or a historical link, such as the lion of England and unicorn of Scotland on the two variations of the Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom.

It was a strange twist of fate that saw him spend most of his life as a coal miner in a pit in Chester-le-Street, County Durham.

Born in Houghton-le-Spring, the son of a County Durham miner, Hamilton joined the Labour Party as a teenager in 1936, and became a schoolteacher.

Palance, one of 6 children, was born Volodymyr Palahniuk in the Lattimer Mines section of Hazle Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, the son of Anna ( Gramiak ) and Ivan Palahniuk, who was an anthracite coal miner.

Dave Merrington, a retired miner from South Hetton, County Durham, fashioned an aspiring trophy in 1975 from a lump of coal hewn from the Haig Colliery in Cumbria.

His parents were natives of County Mayo, Ireland ; his father worked as a coal miner.

* Jose Maria Amador ( 1777-1883 ), rancher, miner, and businessman, for whom Amador City and Amador County, California are named

Wanting more education, Carter went to Fayette County to earn a living as a miner in the coal fields.

Born in Comăneşti, Bacău County, and a miner from age 12, he joined the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) in 1945.

Mr. Smeal was born in Sykesville, Pennsylvania in rural Jefferson County, the son of a coal miner, and credited his mother, Mary, for inspiring him to seek a college degree.

The miners clashed with the Gendarmerie at Costeşti, Vâlcea County ; about 70 miners and 100 gendarmes were wounded and one miner died.

He was born Charles Duane Burley in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 16, 1917 to a mixed-race couple: his father was a black coal miner and his mother a white Irish immigrant from County Cork.

United Mine Workers and CIO official John Brophy is remembered on this historical plaque put up by the state of Pennsylvania in Nanty Glo, Cambria County, where he lived and worked as a miner after immigrating from England.

Dimond was born in New York and attended Catholic schools, taught school in Montgomery County, New York ( 1900 – 1903 ) and was a prospector / miner in Alaska ( 1904 – 1912 ) before studying law and beginning practice in Valdez ( 1913 ).

The area around the Blue Mounds, Dane County, was first settled in 1828 by Ebenezer Brigham, a successful lead miner from Massachusetts.

The ruling effectively freed Hall, a white man, who had been convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Ling Sing, a Chinese miner in Nevada County.