Enoch Edwards (10 April 1852 – 28 June 1912) was a British trade unionist and politician.
Biography Edwards was born at Talk-o'-the Hill Staffordshire on 10 April 1852. He was the son of a pitman, and worked in a coal-mine as a boy.
In 1870 he became treasurer of the North Staffordshire Miners' Association and was elected secretary to the same body in 1877. In 1880 he became president of the Midland Miners' Association; he was later president of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain in 1904.
In 1884 he went to Burslem, where he became a member of the school board and town council in 1886, and later he became alderman and mayor. He was also a member of the Staffordshire County Council. Edwards was elected to Parliament as the Lib-Lab MP for Hanley in 1906. He moved to Labour Party in 1909 following the direction from his trade union, and was elected as an Labour MP outright 1910, however he maintained support from the local Liberal Party organization during his political career. Edwards died in Southport on 28 June 1912, aged 60.
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