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
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
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
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
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 […]
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