Adolphe Smith Headingley

In 1877–78, he wrote and published the magazine series Street Life in London with photographer John Thomson, to raise awareness of the plight of the city's poor.

Smith Headingley played a key role in organising the 1882 International Trades Union Congress and served as an interpreter at successive conferences from 1886 to 1905.

[3][2] Smith Headingley worked with photographer John Thomson to produce the magazine series Street Life in London between 1877 and 1878.

[7][2] Connell disapproved of the change of tune, to which the song remains most closely linked, as he regarded "O Tannenbaum" as "church music" and conservative by nature.

[7] Smith Headingley was an associate of English writer and socialist Henry Hyndman and of the women's suffragists Sylvia, Christabel and Adela Pankhurst.

Adolphe Smith
A photograph of a poor woman and child from Street Life taken by Thomson