Mortimer Grimshaw (1824/5–1869), strike leader and political activist
The son of a radical public speaker and orator, Grimshaw's early campaigns were centred around the improvement of working conditions for the mill-workers in the village of Royton and enforcement of the Factory Acts.
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He first came to prominence in the village of Royton, near Oldham, in 1852 as a campaigner for the improvement and enforcement of the Factory Acts, to improve the working conditions of those employed in the cotton mills.
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In 1861, he and Cowell attempted to intervene in a strike in Clitheroe but were branded "notorious scoundrels" by the weavers there for their parts in the Preston strike.
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Grimshaw was born in or around Great Harwood, Lancashire, in 1824 or 1825 and was one of six children brought up in a working-class family.
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Upon his return to England, Grimshaw, Cowell and two other weavers were involved in a dispute between mill-owners and workers in Clitheroe, Lancashire, in 1861.
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