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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 […]

FATHER JAMES NUGENT

December 8, 2017 By Steven Horton

FATHER JAMES NUGENT

Father James Nugent was a pioneer for child welfare, poverty relief and social reform whose lasting legacy continues today through the work of the charity  Nugent Care, which operates throughout Merseyside and the North West. Born in Hunter Street, Liverpool in 1822, the son of a grocer, he was one of nine children and educated privately. […]

ENGLAND CRICKETER WHO DIED IN WORKHOUSE

November 3, 2017 By Steven Horton

ENGLAND CRICKETER WHO DIED IN WORKHOUSE

John Jackson, a member of the first cricket side to tour overseas, died in Liverpool’s workhouse in 1901 and is buried in the city’s Toxteth Park cemetery. Jackson was born in 1833 in Bungay, Suffolk but his family moved to Southwell in the East Midlands while he was in infancy. After first playing for a local […]

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