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"THOMAS BURT (1837-), British Labour politician, was born at Murton Row, near North Shields, Northumberland, Nov. 12 183 7. He was the son of a miner, and himself started working in the pits when ten years of age, his education being scanty. In 1865 he was elected secretary of the Northumberland Miners' Mutual Provident Association, a post which he held until 1913, and in 1874 successfully contested Morpeth in the Labour interest, being thus (along with Alexander Macdonald) the first of the Labour members in the House of Commons. He took part in many industrial conferences, and in 1890 was one of the British representatives at the Berlin Labour congress of that year. In 1891 he was president of the trade union congress at Newcastle, and in 1892 entered the Liberal ministry as parliamentary secretary of the Board of Trade, holding this post until 1895. In 1906 he was created a privy councillor, and in 1918 resigned his seat in Parliament.

See A. Watson, A Great Labour Leader (1908).