The statue that stands opposite Liverpool’s Philharmonic pub on Hope Street is of Hugh Stowell Brown. He was a minister at the nearby Myrtle Street Baptist for 39 year prior to his sudden death in 1886. Hugh Stowell Brown was born on Sunday 10 August 1823 in Douglas on the Isle of Man. His father […]
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William Faulkes – Organist at St Margaret’s Church Anfield
William Faulkes was a composer and organist at St Margaret’s Church Anfield for over 40 years prior to his death in 1933. William was born in Liverpool in 1863 and was taught music by his sister. He became a chorister at St Margaret’s Church aged ten and continued his studies in theory and practical organ […]
Charles William Wilson – The Scouser who Mapped Jerusalem
In the 1860s an Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem was carried out. It was overseen by Charles William Wilson, who had been born in Liverpool in 1836. Charles William Wilson was born in Wesley Street, which was off Upper Hill Street in Toxteth, on 14th March 1836. He attended Liverpool College and then boarded at Cheltenham […]
Jeanette Altwegg – Liverpool’s Figure Skating Gold Medallist
Britain’s first individual gold medallist in the Winter Olympics was Jeanette Altwegg in 1952. The 21 year old from Aigburth in Liverpool triumphed in figure skating at Oslo’s Bislett Stadium, then announced her retirement from the sport the following day. Jeanette’s father was a Swiss cotton merchant for the East India Company, while her mother […]
Mr Dead The Liverpool Coroner
George Cecil Mort, whose surname translates from French to English as ‘dead’, was the Liverpool Coroner for twenty five years prior to his retirement in 1953. Mort was born in 1880 in Stroud, Gloucestershire. In 1905 he obtained a medical degree at the University of Manchester then four years later got his diploma in public […]
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