a brilliant speech but with the written word, was his method, the apt quotation to clinch an argument. If challenged, he would dive into his trunk of books to produce the evidence. His audience loved it. Fitzgerald died of kidney disease on 16 April 1929 in St Peter's Hospital, aged 57. References Obituary in May 1929 Socialist Standard Socialist Party of Great Britain 1904–1913 membership register Socialist Party of Great Britain 1926–1931 membership register Justice Harry Wicks. Keeping My Head. External links Jack Fitzgerald at the Marxist Internet Archive Socialist Party of Great Britain members Social Democratic Federation members British bricklayers 1870s births 1929 deaths British Marxists Irish Marxists British political party founders