{"id":98,"date":"2015-09-25T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/2015\/09\/25\/angus-macpherson-middlesbrough\/"},"modified":"2015-09-25T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T07:45:00","slug":"angus-macpherson-middlesbrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/2015\/09\/25\/angus-macpherson-middlesbrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Angus MacPherson (Middlesbrough)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>Angus MacPherson &#8211;&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-size: large\">was an amazing, underrated and largely forgotten radical poet of power from 19thC Middlesbrough, writing, at least, around the 1860&#8217;s \/ 70&#8217;s. His poem &#8211; <b>Cleveland Thoughts or The Poetry of Toil <\/b>is a tour de force of working class writing, preserved for us by <b>George Markham Tweddell<\/b> in his tractates.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-tNe1ueN1z8U\/VgpsUSu704I\/AAAAAAAAAIg\/gnwSHSFS3ME\/s1600\/Angus%2BMcPhereson%2Binfirmary%2Bplaque.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"227\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-tNe1ueN1z8U\/VgpsUSu704I\/AAAAAAAAAIg\/gnwSHSFS3ME\/s400\/Angus%2BMcPhereson%2Binfirmary%2Bplaque.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Angus MacPherson<\/b> was also secretary of  Middlesbrough (or North Riding) Infirmary for 32 years 1873 &#8211; 1904 and from 1872 secretary of <i>Cleveland Institute of Engineers <\/i>and was associated with many literary ventures. As I&#8217;ve already written a post on Angus for the <b>George Markham Tweddell <\/b>Hub on <i>Blogger<\/i>, I will refer you there. In the post you can view his brilliant poem <i>The Poetry of Toil<\/i>&nbsp;(in downloadable pdf form) and some others and find out more about his various involvements in early Middlesbrough.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/georgemarkhamtweddell.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/12\/angus-macpherson-and-george-markham.html\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>http:\/\/georgemarkhamtweddell.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/12\/angus-macpherson-and-george-markham.html<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-size: large\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angus MacPherson &#8211;&nbsp; was an amazing, underrated and largely forgotten radical poet of power from 19thC Middlesbrough, writing, at least, around the 1860&#8217;s \/ 70&#8217;s. His poem &#8211; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}