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Frederick Agnew
A businessman who started the Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1883 which developed into the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Britain. He adopted the idea after studying the work of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and other societies in America.
Richard Ansdell
Was considered Liverpool's greatest 19th century animal artist. His picture "The Hunted Slaves" was raffled for the benefit of laid-off Lancashire Cotton Workers during the American Civil War and raised £700.
John Bellingham
Lived in Duke Street and was the man who assassinated the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval in 1812. The new Prime Minister was the 2nd Earl of Liverpool.
Julius Brutus Booth
Was a popular actor at Liverpool's Theatre Royal which opened 1772 at Williamson Square. He emigrated to America in 1821 where he continued his acting career. His son John Wilkes Booth was the person who assassinated President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Washington in 1865.
Bryan Blundell
Liverpool’s earliest philanthropist of consequence who was master of the "Mulberry" one of the first ships to enter the "Old Dock" on it’s completion in 1715. He transported hundreds of emigrants to Virginian planters. He founded Liverpool’s first charity school which was completed in 1718 and survives today as Bluecoat Chambers.
William E Gladstone
The son of a wealthy Scottish merchant, he was born at 62 Rodney Street on 29th December 1809. William E was baptised at Saint Peter's in Church Street. He became Britains Prime Minister, holding office four times. Saint Peter's church had been built over the "pool of Liverpool" and was the oldest building in the city when it was demolished in the 1920's.
Mr Haies
Helped finance Sir Humphrey Gilberts voyage to found the first English colony in Newfoundland in 1582.
Jesse Hartley
Appointed as Dock Engineer in 1824. His favourite material was Scottish granite. His supreme achievement was the Albert Dock which was opened by the Prince Consort in 1845.
Jeremiah Horrox
Born at Toxteth in 1618, he was one of Liverpools greatest sons and a pupil of Richard Mather. At 14 he gained a place at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was interested in the secrets of the universe and the motions of the heavenly bodies. After graduating he returned home to Toxteth where he took every opportunity to measure the positions of the moon and planets against the stars. What he discovered was that they did not fit the positions given in the tables of Longomonitus, based on the "Almagest" and the "Great Work" of Claudius Ptolemaus which had remained unchallenged as the bible of astromoners for thirteen centuries. When introduced to the work of Kepler, Horrox was able to fit his observations to an astronomical theory and became an admirer of the then controversial and radical ideas of Copernicus and Kepler. Horrox died young in 1641 but he was later acknowledged by fellow astromoners including Edmund Halley and Herschel, as the father of English astronomers . When Isaac Newton first published his "Principia" in 1686 he acknowledged his debt to Horrox.