Alexander Maguire

Sir Alexander Herbert Maguire (18 May 1876 – 20 January 1947), was a British industrialist who made his fortune from match manufacturing, producing the Maguire & Patterson brand amongst others. He played a significant part in the prohibition of poisonous white phosphorus from match manufacturing.

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