Thomas Stamford Raffles was the son of a well known local churchman and Liverpool’s stipendiary magistrate for thirty years in the second half of the 19th century. Raffles was born in London, where his parents were visiting, on 18th September 1818. His father was the Reverend Thomas Raffles, who was originally from London but had […]
WILLIAM MACKENZIE TOMB
The tomb of William MacKenzie, situated in the graveyard of the former St Andrew’s Church in Rodney Street, Liverpool, is often talked about. It is said that he is not buried there, but instead sat above ground and also that his ghost roams the locality. William Mackenzie was born near Nelson in 1794, the eldest […]
WILLIAM WETHERED
William Wethered was born in Bristol in 1864, the son of a colliery proprietor. He moved to North West England in 1881 and took an interest in saltworks near Fleetwood, which was taken over by United Alkali Co in 1890. He became a director of this if this company which would later go on to […]
JACK SHARP – FOOTBALLER, CRICKETER & RETAILER
Former Everton player Jack Sharp, who opened a sports shop after he finished playing, is the only sportsman to appear for one of Merseyside’s big two clubs and represent England at both football and cricket. Sharp was born in Hereford in 1878 . The youngest of four brothers, he was the son of a butcher. He […]
SIR WILLIAM WATSON – A CONTROVERSIAL POET
Sir William Watson, a prominent Victorian poet, was twice overlooked for the role of Poet Laureate, in part due to the political nature of his poetry. Following his death in 1935 he was interred in a family vault at All Saints Church in Childwall, Liverpool, a city whose dignitaries he had severely criticised eleven years earlier. […]
JOHN CHARLES RYLE – LIVERPOOL’S FIRST BISHOP
When Liverpool became a Diocese in 1880 the first bishop was John Charles Ryle, who hadn’t intended to choose religion as a career path. Born at Henbury near Macclesfield in 1816, Ryle’s great grandfather on his mother’s side was Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning jenny. He was the son of a banker and […]
SIR JOHN ARCHIBALD WILLOX
Born in Edinburgh in 1842, John Archibald Willox s father was a journalist who wrote a number of shipping books. The family moved to Liverpool and where Willox was educated at Liverpool College. On leaving school he became an apprentice journalist for a press agency and was quickly snapped up by the Liverpool Courier, becoming […]
FANNY CALDER – DOMESTIC SCIENCE PIONEER
Fanny Calder, one of the most influential women in the education of females lived in Liverpool’s Canning Street for sixty years. Fanny Louisa Calder was born to American parents on the 26th March 1838 in Rodney Street in Liverpool. She then later resided at 54 Upper Parliament St but was living in 49 Canning Street […]
FALKNER STREET’S ABOMINABLE TRADERS
In Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter customers sit at the pavement cafes on the corner of Falkner Street and Hope Street sipping coffee, drinking beer and eating snacks and light meals. They do so in complete ignorance of an illicit trade that went on within spitting distance in 1888 when the local community were shocked to learn […]
TRAGEDY OF PETER KAVANAGH’S SON-IN-LAW
Peter Kavanagh’s pub in Egerton Street is one of the most famous in the city. Originally the Liver Inn, it is now named after the licensee who ran it for an incredible fifty three years from 1897 to 1950. In addition to running the pub which bears his name, Kavanagh found time to take a […]
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