He moved to Canada in 1900 and worked as a railway clerk.
The son of a railway clerk, he became active in revolutionary politics as a young man.
While working as a railway clerk, he attended a film acting school in his spare time.
Shortly after leaving school in 1887 (aged 18), he became a railway clerk.
Henry Evans, a railway clerk, appeared occasionally over the next five years.
He was born in York, England, the son of a railway clerk.
A railway clerk by trade, he was also a keen writer whose poetry had been published in the local newspaper.
Harris became a railway clerk (as listed in the 1911 census), but took up performing and song writing.
He first came in contact with Marxist literature in the 1920s through his work as a railway clerk.
The son of an infantry colonel, Binford left high school at 16 for a job as a railway postal clerk.