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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 […]

ANDREW BARCLAY WALKER

January 17, 2018 By Steven Horton

ANDREW BARCLAY WALKER

Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery was opened in 1877 and was donated to the town by brewer Andrew Barclay Walker, who lived in Gateacre. Walker was born in Ayrshire in 1824, the second son of Peter Walker of the Fort Brewery. He was initially educated at the Ayr Academy but when his father moved to Liverpool […]

SIR CHARLES PETRIE

January 4, 2018 By Steven Horton

SIR CHARLES PETRIE

Petrie was born in Newburgh, Fife in 1853 and continued his father and grandfather’s tradition of salmon fisheries along the River Tay. In 1876 he moved south to Manchester, starting a firm of salmon merchants and general fishmongers. He then moved to Liverpool and also pursued salmon interests in Ireland and oyster fisheries in Essex. […]

CHARLES THURSTAN HOLLAND

December 29, 2017 By Steven Horton

CHARLES THURSTAN HOLLAND

Charles Thurstan Holland, one of the pioneers in the field of radiology lived in Liverpool’s Rodney Street, where he died in 1941. Holland was born in March 1863 at Bridgwater, His father was William Thomas Holland and his mother Florence Holland was the second daughter of portrait painter Charles Allen Du Val. Holland studied medicine […]

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