Gabriel Price

Gabriel Price (19 April 1879 – 24 March 1934) was a British Labour Party politician.

He was elected as Member of Parliament for Hemsworth at the 1931 general election, and died in office in 1934.

Gabe Price was born in Fairburn North Yorkshire, he worked as a checkweighman at the Frickley Colliery and was devoted to the service of the miners. He was the son of a miner and at the age of twelve started work in the pit himself at Hemsworth Colliery. He represented his union branch on the council of the Yorkshire Miners' Association and was a member of the West Riding County Council and the West Riding Education Committee. He was also an alderman and a county magistrate and was the uncle of horse-racing owner-breeder and publisher, Phil Bull.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Wright, Howard (1995). Bull - The Biography. Halifax: Timeform. p. 274. ISBN 0 900599 76 6.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Guest		 Member of Parliament for Hemsworth
1931–1934 		Succeeded by
George Griffiths


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