Liverpool born actress Dame May Whitty, who did not become a Hollywood star until she was in her seventies, was the first film and stage actress to be made a Dame of the British Empire. Whitty was born Mary Whitty at 8 Catharine Street on 19th June 1865. Her paternal grandfather was Michael James Whitty, […]
HENRY SUMNERS ARCHITECT
Henry Sumners was an architect who designed numerous buildings in Liverpool and the surrounding area in the second half of the nineteenth century. Sumners was born in 1825, the son of a bootmaker who traded out of 31 Bold Street. On completing his education he was apprenticed to Charles Reed, an architect in Birkenhead and […]
HERBERT SAMUEL
Herbert Samuel was a Liverpool man who became the first Jew to serve in the Cabinet and lead a British political party. Samuel was born to Jewish parents on 6th November 1870 at 11 Belvidere Road, now part of the Belvedere Academy school in Toxteth. He was the son of a rich banker who was […]
JENNY LIND IN LIVERPOOL
Swedish soprano Jenny Lind, often known as the ‘Swedish Nightingale’, performed in Liverpool on a number of occasions in the middle of the 19th Century. Born Johanna Maria Lind in Stockholm in 1820, Lind was admitted to the Royal Dramatic Theatre at the age of nine and was soon appearing on stage. Her first major role […]
FATHER MATHEW IN LIVERPOOL
Temperance campaigner Theobald Mathew, more commonly known as Father Mathew, paid a number of visits to Liverpool in the middle of the 19th Century. Mathew was born in County Tipperary in 1790 and schooled in Kilkenny. After being ordained as a priest in Dublin in 1814, he settled in Cork. In 1838 he set up […]
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