book.<\/a><\/p>\nAnglo \u2013 Catholic convert to the left, Hugh Holmes Gore<\/strong>, was a key figure in Bristol\u2019s labour movement during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Gore linked Clifton Christian Socialists, morally concerned about the poverty and suffering caused by economic depression, with the working class revolutionaries in the Bristol Socialist Society. His eloquence as a speaker moved dockers and miners and attracted working class votes in local elections. He was popular as the \u2018people\u2019s solicitor\u2019 and for his committed practical work in the community.<\/p>\nAs a radical solicitor he gained a national reputation during the 1893 defence of Walsall anarchists on trial for a bomb plot instigated by a police agent. His personal networks included well known left intellectuals such as the socialist artist and poet, William Morris, the advocate of homosexual freedom, Edward Carpenter, the sexologist Havelock Ellis and his wife Edith, as well as the arts and crafts designer, Charles Robert Ashbee.<\/p>\n
However, in 1898 Gore vanished under mysterious circumstances. His friends\u2019 comments suggest a scandal, most probably because of his sexual attraction to men at a time when homosexuality was a criminal offence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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