[1] He played a significant part in the prohibition of poisonous white phosphorus from match manufacturing.
In 1919, with the death of two of his brothers and the retirement of another, he took over the directorship of the company and formed Maguire, Paterson and Palmer.
[4] His niece Isobel Maguire married Brigadier George Taylor CBE, DSO & Bar.
There he was treated by society doctor John Bodkin Adams, the suspected serial killer.
[5] According to Olwen Williams, Maguire's nurse, Adams plied the patient with whisky despite him being "an inebriate".