 He spent his life in Poplar in the East End, from which his family came, a lifelong supporter of left-wing and Labour causes.In 1900, he married an Irish woman named Julia Sullivan, who became a prominent politician and campaigner for women's rights, who led a deputation (on behalf of Sylvia Pankhurst) to meet Prime Minister Asquith, in 1914 and pleaded for suffrage for women supported by the poor working-class men and women of East London .They had two sons and a daughter born within four years.