Tom Maguire
From the introduction:
"Tom Maguire, one of Britain's died just over one hundred years ago in 1895. In his life he fought for a new politics [...] Tom Maguire conributed ten intense years of work for socialism in Leeds and Yorkshire as both political organiser, orator and poet. Some people are comets and in their brief lives light up the world. As Keir Hardie wrote in tribute soon after Tom Maguire's death at the age of twenty-nine, "The socialist movement, none too rich in men who combine a clear wisdom, unerring judgement and a large sympathetic heart, could ill afford to yield back to the gods one gifted young comrade." "
Leeds University Reporter article on the launch of the book