Harry Evans was born in 1873 in Mertyhr Tydfil, one of ten children. He was the son of a local choirmaster and showed such talent at music that his local church appointed him as their organist when he was aged just nine. Harry’s church paid for him to remain at school until aged fourteen and […]
SIR ARTHUR BOWER FORWOOD
One of the statues in St John’s Gardens, Liverpool commemorates ship owner and politician Sir Arthur Bower Forwood. Born on 23rd June 1836, Forwood was the son of Thomas Brittain Forwood of Thornton Hough on Wirral. His middle name Bower was as a reference to his mother’s maiden name. He was educated at Liverpool College […]
JAMES NEWLANDS BOROUGH ENGINEER
The first integrated sewage system in the world was developed in Liverpool in 1848 and overseen by newly appointed Borough Engineer James Newlands. Born in Edinburgh in 1813, Newlands was one of nine children. After distinguishing himself in mathematics and natural philosophy at the High School of Edinburgh in the late 1820s he became apprenticed as […]
HUGH MCELROY TITANIC PURSER
Hugh Walter McElroy, the chief purser on the Titanic, was born at 3 Percy Street in Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter on 28th October 1874. Hugh’s parents were staunch Roman Catholics Richard and Jessie McElroy who originated from County Wexford in Ireland. When he was seven his parents moved to 6 Eversley Street in Toxteth. When Hugh […]
THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES
Thomas Stamford Raffles was the son of a well known local churchman and Liverpool’s stipendiary magistrate for thirty years in the second half of the 19th century. Raffles was born in London, where his parents were visiting, on 18th September 1818. His father was the Reverend Thomas Raffles, who was originally from London but had […]
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