Alfred Brant was a compositor by trade. During the 1890’s, he contributed articles to the Wyvern on a range of topics including ‘White Slaves in Leicester,’ and a description of 1897 May Day demonstration. Under the acronym ‘A.C.B.,’ he wrote an autobiographical poem which tells of the reader of his secularism, socialism and his joy at working at the Leicester Co-operative Printing Society. In 1910, the Co-operative Printing Press published ‘A Rhymster’s Recollections,’ a 32 page collection of his writings, containing a sonnet in dedication to Ramsay MacDonald and a poem welcoming delegates to the 1911 Labour Party conference in Leicester. He was a secularist, a member of F.J. Gould’s ethical guild and a superintendent of the Secular Sunday School.