C. L. Fitzgerald
Charles L. Fitzgerald (born 1836) was a British socialist activist and journalist.
Fitzgerald was commissioned in the
West India Regiment, and served in India from 1855 until 1857, the period leading up to the Indian Rebellion.[1]
In the 1880s, Fitzgerald was an early member of the
H. M. Hyndman replaced him.[3] Fitzgerald also served briefly as secretary of the SDF, but after a scandal in which Hyndman secretly accepted money from a Conservative Party agent to stand candidates in the 1885 general election, he resigned from the group.[4]
Fitzgerald worked with
H. W. Lee claimed that he emigrated to the Western United States in the early 1890s and lived there until his death in about 1930.[5]
References
- National Archives, "Charles L Fitzgerald"
- ^ G. D. H. Cole, British working class politics, 1832-1914, p.92
- Robin Page Arnot, William Morris: The Man and the Myth, p.47
- ^ a b Austen Morgan, J. Ramsay MacDonald, p.15
- ^ Norman Kelvin, The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume II, Part A: 1881-1884, p.253