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 […]
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