John William (Jack) Besford (1891–1975)
Jack Besford began work as a miner on his 13th birthday, and went on to become a leading trade unionist.
Politics
Besfords have held public office nearly six hundred years apart, as Members of Parliament for Worcestershire and Northampton in the fourteenth century and as an official of the Northumberland miners in the twentieth century.
Alexander Besford (died c.1400)
Alexander Besford of Besford, Worcestershire, was a lawyer, steward of Westminster Abbey’s western estates and four times Member of Parliament for Worcestershire between 1382 and 1395.
John Besford (MP)
John Besford was one of two Members of Parliament elected in September 1388 for the British parliamentary constituency of Northampton.