Sir Randal Cremer
British labor leader
Also known as: Sir William Randal Cremer
Sir Randal Cremer (born March 18, 1838, Fareham, Hampshire, England—died July 22, 1908, London) was a British trade unionist and pacifist who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1903 for his advocacy of international arbitration. In 1860 Cremer was one of the founders of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners. He was secretary of the British section of the International Working Men’s Association (First International) but resigned because of a dispute with another...