Joseph Batey

Joseph Batey (4 March 1867 – 21 February 1949) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Batey became a coal miner, before winning election as a checkweighman, and then becoming a full-time official for the Durham Miners' Association. A support of the Labour Party, Batey served on the South Shields Town Council and Board of Guardians.^[1]

He was elected at the 1922 election as member of parliament (MP) for the Spennymoor constituency in County Durham, which he had contested unsuccessfully at the 1918 election.^[1] Batey held the seat until he resigned from the House of Commons on 6 July 1942, by the procedural device of accepting the post of Steward of the Manor of Northstead.