Runcorn, Halton, England, United Kingdom
Sir William Edward Dudley OBE (1868-1938). Dudley was born at 1 Loch Street (house now demolished) into a family already involved in co-operative trading. He joined the Runcorn Co-operative Society in 1893, and by 1896 he was the society's chairman. He campaigned for better representation for the Ch
eshire and North Wales district within the north-west section of the Co-operative Union, and he became chairman of the union's central board in 1911. He was elected to the board of the Co-operative Wh
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