Ben Tillett
Summary
: L287
: Fine Art
: sculpture
: Ben Tillett
: STEVENSON, James Alexander
: a bronze sculpture of a head, showing: the bristol-born socialist, trade union leader and politician Benjamin Tillett (1860-1943); Tillett was active in the Great London Dock Strike of 1889 and the Bristol Labour Uprisings of the same year; he was arrested in Bristol in 1892 for sedition and inciting violence on what beame known as 'Black Friday' (a Christmas lantern procession which became an illegal demontration); he was eventually elected as the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Salford North, 1917-1924, and 1929-1931
Current Location
: City of Bristol Collection
: Tillett, Mr Benjamin: 1924
: Given by Mr Benjamin Tillett, through the office of the Lord Mayor of Bristol, Alderman Albert Whitfield Stone Burgess JP, 1940