Angus MacPherson -
was an amazing, underrated and largely forgotten radical poet of power from 19thC Middlesbrough, writing, at least, around the 1860's / 70's. His poem - Cleveland Thoughts or The Poetry of Toil is a tour de force of working class writing, preserved for us by George Markham Tweddell in his tractates.
Angus MacPherson was also secretary of Middlesbrough (or North Riding) Infirmary for 32 years 1873 - 1904 and from 1872 secretary of
Cleveland Institute of Engineers and was associated with many literary ventures. As I've already written a post on Angus for the
George Markham Tweddell Hub on
Blogger, I will refer you there. In the post you can view his brilliant poem
The Poetry of Toil (in downloadable pdf form) and some others and find out more about his various involvements in early Middlesbrough.
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