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MATHER AVENUE – ARTHUR STANLEY MATHER

September 3, 2018 By Steven Horton

MATHER AVENUE – ARTHUR STANLEY MATHER

One of the main thoroughfares of south Liverpool is Mather Avenue. It was named after Arthur Stanley Mather, a solicitor and alderman who lived in Woolton. Mather was born in 1842, the son of J P Mather of Bootle Hall. He was educated at Rugby School and in 1865 was articled to Messrs Simpson, North […]

WILLIAM SEWELL CRIMEAN WAR HERO

August 25, 2018 By Steven Horton

WILLIAM SEWELL CRIMEAN WAR HERO

William Sewell, one of the heroes of the Crimean War who was injured in the Charge of the Light Brigade, is buried in Woolton’s St Peter’s Churchyard. Born at Dorking in Surrey, Sewell enlisted with the 13th Light Dragoons at Westminster in 1851 at the age of nineteen. The cavalry regiment was sent to Crimea […]

DAME MAY WHITTY

May 28, 2018 By Steven Horton

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

May 21, 2018 By Steven Horton

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

April 27, 2018 By Steven Horton

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

April 25, 2018 By Steven Horton

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

April 23, 2018 By Steven Horton

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 […]

REGINALD BEVINS

April 22, 2018 By Steven Horton

Reginald Bevins was a working class Liverpudlian who was a Conservative Member of Parliament for Toxteth from 1950 to 1964. During this time they were the ruling party for thirteen years and his background led to him being appointed to key government positions. Born John Reginald Bevins on 20th August 1908, Bevins grew up at 20 […]

DESTRUCTION OF RAJAH AT LIVERPOOL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

February 20, 2018 By Steven Horton

DESTRUCTION OF RAJAH AT LIVERPOOL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

In June 1848 there was a tragedy at Liverpool Zoological Gardens in West Derby Road. Rajah the elephant, one of the main attractions, killed his keeper and was subsequently destroyed. Rajah had been at the zoo since 1836 and was around 35 years old. He was usually a very docile elephant and would pick his […]

AGNES JONES

February 18, 2018 By Steven Horton

AGNES JONES

Agnes Jones,  a nurse who strived so hard to improve the health of the inhabitants of Liverpool’s workhouse, died at the tragically young age of just thirty five years old. Agnes was born in Cambridge on 10th November 1832. The daughter of a lieutenant-colonel in the Twelfth Regiment, she spent six years of her childhood […]

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