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Name	Arthur Desmond
Alternative Names	Ragnar Redbeard Richard Thurland
Born	c. 1859 New Zealand
Died	23 January, 1929 (aged ~ 70) Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Cause of Death	brain hemorrhage
Cultural Heritage	English Irish New Zealander Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Schellenberg, Joseph Francis (colleague) Dwyer, John George (colleague) Beattie, Robert (colleague) Dodd, Thomas (colleague)
Occupation or Descriptor *	political activist (1892-1895) New South Wales, Australia labour party organiser (1893-1894) New South Wales, Australia socialist (1893-1893) New South Wales, Australia poet (1894-1894) New South Wales, Australia
Political Activism *	Active Service Brigade (Sydney) (member, ?-1893) ALP (NSW) (member, 1893-1895)

* Dates are approximate

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