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Appendix.
1. Extended Family Tree of Thomas Hodgson.
Isaac Hodgson
of ‘The Hill’
Elizabeth ??
1711-1785
Thomas Hodgson
of ‘The Nook’
John Hodgson
1735-1813
d.w.o. issue
Mary Hodgson Thomas Hudson Elizabeth Hodgson
1760-1824
Isaac Capstick
1752-1822
Thomas Hodgson
1737-1817
Elizabeth Lightbody
1758-1795
Elizabeth Isaac Agnes Mary Tylston Adam Thomas Tylston
died in his first year
Isabella Hodgson
1737 - 1807 Bryan Padgett
1733 - 1809
Bella Padgett
1771-1841
Samuel Gregson
1763 - 1846
Bryan Padgett Gregson
1795 - 1872
Samuel Gregson
MP Lancaster
1793 - 1865
Isabella
m. 1826 John Fell
Ulverstone, Banker
+ 2 sons + 1 daughter
unknown
Anna
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2. Descendants of Thomas Hodgson.
Thomas Hodgson
1737 - 1817
1781 Elizabeth Lightbody
1758 - 1795
Elizabeth
1804 John Fletcher
of Liverpool
1773-1844
Isaac
1783-1859
1825 Emma MacMurdo
1805 -1881
Agnes
Spinster
Mary Tylston
Spinster
Anna Thomas Tylston
died Dec 1795
John
d. single
Thomas Hodgson
Fletcher
1808-1832
at Calcutta
Elizabeth Fletcher
Philip Henry
Fletcher Cotton Spinner
m. Francis Bower
Samuel Fletcher
d. single
Agnes Jane Fletcher
m. Rev. George Vance
Elizabeth Emma
1828-1893
m. Rev John Rowlands
1867
Emma Agnes
1831-1861
Mary Isabella
Anna Helen
Caroline Beatrice
m. James Weston
1879
Agnes m.
Arthur Bilbrough1863
Bertha m. John Given
1866
Henry Tylston m.
Charlotte P. Lloyd 1865
Adam Hodgson
1788-1862
Emily Catherine
Champneys
1806-1875
1825
Emily Lucy
1831-1894
Canon Thomas
Edward 1827 - 1897
Rev. Adam Henry
Elizabeth Tylston
1830-1893
Frances
Frederick
Wilberforce
1834 - 1861
Alfred
1835-1835
Edward Hornby
Albert Champneys
died in infancy
Rev. Evelyn Gisborne
1847-1895
Herbert
Reginald
1841-1888
Katherine Gertrude
1843-1849
Son Cecil F C Hodgson
m. Francis Roberts
at Sansalito S.F 1900
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3. Descent of Elizabeth Lightbody from the Protestant Divine Phillip Henry.
4. Capstick Family Tree
Phillip Henry
1631-1696
1660 Katherine Matthews
?? - 1703
John Henry
1661-1667
Matthew Henry
1662-??
Sarah Henry
Katherine Henry
Eleanor Henry
Ann Henry
1667 - ??
1688 John Hulton
of Chester
John Tylston M.D.
of Chester
John Tylston
Thomas Tylston
Katherine Tylston
d. single
Hannah Tylston
d. single
Mary Tylston
d. single
Katherine Hulton
Mary Hulton
Edward Hulton
Elizabeth Colley
Hannah Tylston
Elizabeth Tylston
Mary Lowe
d. of Rev. Sam. Lowe
of Knutsford
1719
Henry Hulton
Customs
Commissioner
America 1768-1779
Ann Hulton
d. single
Elizabeth Preston
Beeston, Norfolk
letter to Elizabeth Tylston
Adam Lightbody
Linen Merchant
Liverpool
Elizabeth Lightbody
1758 - 1795
Thomas Hodgson
of Caton
1737 - 1817
1781
Agnes Lightbody
????-1812
John Pares
of Leicester
1749-1833
Hannah Lightbody
1766-1828
Samuel Greg
of Manchester
1758-1834
Isaac Capstick Elizabeth
Hodgson
1711-1785
Isaac
Capstick
1754-1822
Sarah
Gregson?
1761-1824
Richard
Capstick
??-1788
Ann
Capstick
Mary
Capstick
?? Huntington
Alice
Capstick
??
Fell
Dorothy
Capstick
Edward
Cheshire
Attorney
of Manchester
Bella
Capstick
??
Capstick
??
Whiteside
Mary Whiteside
1789
1781
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5. Extended Family Tree Greg Family
John Greg
1693-1783
Jane Cunningham
Thomas Greg
1718-1796
1743 Elizabeth Hyde
John Greg
1716-1795
Catherine
Henderson
Waddell Cunningham
1729-1797
Mary Hyde?
Samuel
b.1743
d. young?
John Greg
Jane
Mary
Thomas Greg
1752-1832
d.w.o. Issue
Margaret Hibbert
d. w. o. issue
Elizabeth
Sarah (Lyle)
Samuel Greg
1758 -1834
Hannah Lightbody
1766-1828
1789
Eleanor (Warre)
Cunningham Greg
1761 -1830
Margaret Greg
Ellen Gasson
Narcissus Batt
Eliza
Alicia
Thomas Richard Greg
1805 - ??
Mary Batt
1st daughter
Harry-Cunningham Greg
1840-1844
1838
Alice Margaret Greg
Elizabeth
1790-1882 William Rathbone
1787–1868
Marianne
1791-1863
1812
Thomas Tylston
1793-1839
John
of Caton
1801-1882
Robert Hyde
1795-1875
Mary Phillips 1824
Agnes Jane
1797-??
Sarah
Samuel
1799-1804
Hannah Mary
1800-1871 ?? Reynolds
Frank McClean
Elizabeth Kennedy
???? – 1874
1829
Margaret
1803-1817
Samuel Jr
1804-1876
Mary Needham
Ellen
1807-1894
Andrew Melly 1828
William Rathbone
1809 – 1881
(1833) Lucy Henry
(1874) Julia Wilson
Albert Greg
1835 –1910
Ellen Ronalds Ellen Greg
1837-1904
Hannah Greg David Vaughan
Margaret Greg
???? – 1889 Mary Greg
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6. Family Tree of the Pares Family of Leicester.
Also indicating in blue some extant correspondence at the DRO.
Thomas Pares I
Lawyer, Leicester
1716-1805
John Tylston Pares
????-1831
Ann
Thomas Pares II
1746-1824
d.w.o. issue
John Pares
Hosier
1749-1833
Agnes Lightbody
????-1812
1781 William Pares
Cleric d.w.o. issue
????-1809
Ann (Dod)?
Mary Pares
Thomas Pares III
Eton Camb M.P.
1790-1866
1821 Octavia Macmurdo
1800-1881
Edward Langdon
Mackmurdo
Thomas Henry Pares
1830-1878
+ 6 others
??
Ann Pares 1807
Thomas Pagett
Mary Burnaby
Harriet Greg (Aunt)
1820
John Tylston
Pares
Agnes Tylston
Pares
Mary Tylston
Pares
Elizabeth Ann
Mackmurdo
James Heygate jun
?? Macmurdo Sir William Heygate
Emma MacMurdo
1805 -1881
Isaac Hodgson
1783-1859
Clara Myrtilla
Macmurdo George Weston
Barrister
Isaac Hodgson
(cousin)
Elizabeth Fletcher
(cousin)
Henry T Hodgson (nephew)
Samuel Greg (uncle)
Mary Ann Greg (cousin)
Thomas Greg (cousin)
Robert Hyde Greg (cousin)
Agnes Vaughan (sister)
Adam Hodgson (cousin)
Emma Agnes Hodgson (niece)
John Greg (cousin)
William Rathbone Greg (cousin)
Elizabeth E Hodgson (niece)
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7. Hornby of Dalton Hall Family Tree
Margaret Hornby
d.1815
Dorothy Rishton
Edmund Hornby
Dorothy Hornby
Ann Hornby Edmund Cole
Beaumont
Lancaster
Geoffrey Hornby
Poulton & Scale Hall
Susannah
d. 1722?
Edward Sherdley
Kirkham
Geoffrey Hornby
d.s.p.. 1801
Rector of Whittington
Edmund Hornby
Poulton & Scale Hall
b. 1728
Margaret Winckley
John Winckley
Preston
Elizabeth Starkie
Huntroyds
Geoffrey Hornby
Poulton & Scale Hall
1728-1812.
Col. Lancs. Militia.
Rector of Winwick 1782
Dorothy Hornby
d.young
Susan Hornby
d.1799
James John Hornby
Rector of Winwick
James
Lord Strange
1772 Lucy Stanley
Geoffrey Hornby
Rector of Bury
Edmund Hornby
Dalton Hall
1771-1857
J.P. High Sheriff
Edward
Lord Stanley
12th Earl of Derby
Edward Thomas Stanley
Hornby
In Holy Orders d.unm.
Lady Charlotte
Stanley d. 1805
George Hornby
In Holy Orders
Sir Phipps Hornby K.C.B.
Littlegreen
Charles Hornby
In Holy Orders
Lucy Hornby
Rev. H. W. Champneys
Rector of Badworth
1796
Georgiana Hornby
Edmund George Hornby
Dalton Hall
b. 1799
J.P. M.P. Warrington
Charlotte Margaret Hornby
d. 1817
Frances Susannah Hornby
1798 Edward
Lord Stanley
Earl of Derby
Louise Hornby
Henrietta
Elizabeth Hornby
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8. Rathbone Family Tree
9. Champneys Family Tree
Hannah Trigge
d. 1766
John Byrte
b. 1734
1740 William Champneys
b. 1699
Thomas Charles Burt
b. 1773
Rev. Henry William Champneys
Ostenhangar, Kent
Rector of Badsworth, Yorks
b 1770
1767 Harriet Champneys
bapt. 1744-5
Lucy Hornby
1796
Henry William Justinian
Champneys 1798-1819
Rev. Geoffrey Hornby
Rector of Winwick
James, Lord Stanley
Lucy Stanley
Thomas Phipps Amyam
Champneys b. 1808
Edward Geoffrey John
Champneys b. 1813
Maximillian Hugh Stanley
Champneys b. 1816
Charles James Hornby
Champneys b. 1817
Lucy Henrietta
Champneys
Frances Susanna
Champneys
Louise Charlotte
Margaret Champneys
Mary Sophia
Champneys
Emily Catherine
Champneys
Adam Hodgson
1826
William Rathbone (III)
1726-1789
1. Rachel Rutter
d. 1761
2. Margaret Fletcher
Sarah Rathbone William Rathbone (IV)
1757-1809
Elizabeth Rathbone Robert Benson Hannah Mary Reynolds
1761-1839
William Rathbone (V)
1787-1868
Richard Rathbone
1788-1860
Theodore Rathbone
1798-1863
Benson Rathbone
1800-1834
Elizabeth Greg
1790-1882
Hannah Mary Reynolds
(half cousin)
William Rathbone (VI)
1819-1902
Samuel Greg Rathbone
1823-1903
4 others
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10. Family Tree of the Earls of Derby
Edward Stanley
11th Earl of Derby
d. 1776
Lucy Smith
d. 1759
James, Lord Strange
1717-1771
Rev. Sir Thomas Horton
d. 1821
Hon. Elizabeth Stanley
1748-1796
Edward Smith Stanley
12th Earl of Derby
Lord Lieut. Lancashire
b. 1752
1747
1. Lady Elizabeth Hamilton
d. 1797
Rev. Geoffrey Hornby
d. 1812
Hon. Lucy Stanley
1750-1833
1778 1779
Hon. Harriet Stanley
1756-1830
Lady Lucy Elizabeth Stanley
1799-1809
2. Eliza Farren
d. 1829
Edward Smith Stanley
Baron Stanley
13th Earl of Derby
1775-1851
1774 1797
Edmund Hornby M.P.
Lady Charlotte Stanley
1776-1805
Charlotte Margaret Hornby
d. 1817
Hon. James Stanley
1799-1809
Stephen Thomas Cole
Lady Elizabeth Henrietta Stanley
b. 1778
Lady Mary Margaret Stanley
Countess of Wilton b. 1801
1798
1796
1795
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11. Hornby of Liverpool Family Tree
Richard Hornby
of Newton (Kirkham)
b. ca. 1613
1659
) Elizabeth (Walmsley)
William Hornby
of Newton (Kirkham)
1656-1710
1681
Alice Sudell
Blackburn
Isabel (Horscarr)
Robert Hornby
1690-1768
Elizabeth ??
Margaret
d. 1804
Joseph Hankinson
(Kirkham)
Hugh Hornby
of Kirkham
1719-1781
Richard Hornby
William Hornby
Alice Hornby
Robert Hornby
1750-1776
d.s.p.
Joseph Hornby
of Ribby Hall
1748-1832
Rev. Hugh Hornby
John Hornby
of Blackburn
1763-1841
William Hornby
of Kirkham
1761-1824 d.s.p.
Thomas Hornby
of Kirkham
1759-1824
Richard Birley
Blackburn
Elizabeth Hornby
d. in infancy
Alice Hornby
d. unm
William Langton
of Manchester
Margaret Hornby
Hugh Hornby
of Ribby Hall
b. 1799
1796 Margaret Wilson
of Preston
d. 1833
Margaret Ann
b. 1837
Hugh Hilton
b. 1838
Ann (Hilton) 1836
Hugh Hornby
Of Sandown Hall
1792-1875
1786
Cicely Langton
d. 1833
2 sons
5 daughters
Joseph Hornby
1794-1853
Alice Kendall
w. d. of Daniel Backhouse
d. 1827
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12. Associates of Adam Hodgson
Below are listed some of the people associated with Adam Hodgson, which,
since it covers widely different periods of his life, is necessarily incomplete
and anachronistic.
Cotton Broking
William & Richard Rathbone, Isaac Cooke, James Cropper, Robert Benson,
James Ryley, and William Jones:- Hodgson Jones & Ryley later Hodgson &
Ryley.
British and Foreign Bible Society, Hibernian Society
Pan Evangelical organisations.
Isaac Hadwen, William Rathbone, Charles Horsfall, Rev. Robert Pedder
Buddicom, Isaac Cooke, John Gladstone President 1819, James Cropper
Treasurer 1819.
Seaman’s Friend & Bethel Union
1821 Adam Hodgson Treasurer, Sir John Tobin, James Cropper vice-
presidents.
Lancashire Female Refuge
Prompted by visit of Elizabeth Fry (Quaker) who stayed with the Bensons.
Hodgson played an early and prominent role. Patron was the Earl of Derby,
supporters included Rev. J. J. Hornby, Rector of Winwick, William Garnett,
William Rathbone, William Rushton, Richard Vaughan Yates, Charles
Horsfall, and George Holt.
West India Association
Hodgson not known to be a member but associated by selection to chair the
Emancipation debates and in the selection of Lord Sandon as candidate for
Liverpool. Thomas Fletcher, John Gladstone MP, Charles Horsfall, George
Hall Lawrence, Charles Lawrence, Francis Shand.
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Abolitionists
Joseph Sandars, corn merchant, William Roscoe, Isaac Hodgson, James
Cropper, Samuel Hope, Thomas Blackburn, Thomas Thornley, Dr Raffles,
George Holt, Thomas Sands, W. W. Currie, Edward Rushton, Isaac Hadwen,
Edward Roscoe, Henry Booth, John & Edward Cropper, William Bevan.
Liverpool to Manchester Railroad
John Moss, Thomas Booth, William Ewart, James Cropper John Tobin, John
Gladstone, William Ewart, John Kennedy, Samuel Greg, William Garnett.
Charles Lawrence (Mayor of Liverpool & Chairman of Board) Lister Ellis,
(Vice Chairman), Robert Gladstone, Joseph Sandars, Joseph Hornby, William
Rathbone, Henry Booth, Robert Benson – Bankers were Moss, Rogers and
Moss.
Insurance
Guardian Fire and Life: Charles Horsfall, Isaac Cooke, John Cropper, Joshua
Hornby
Manchester Assurance: Benjamin Arthur Heywood, Isaac Cooke, Robert
Gladstone, Robert Benson, William Brown, Joseph Hornby, Charles Horsfall
Corn Law and East India Agitation.
John Gladstone, James Cropper, Arthur Heywood, Robert Benson, and
William Rathbone.
Health of Towns
Edward Cropper, Rev. Jonathan Brooks, James Cropper and John Gladstone
vice presidents, William Rathbone, J. B. Yates, William Brown, Edward
Roscoe, T. B. Horsfall, Isaac Hadwen jun.
Bank of Liverpool
William Brown chairman - proposed by Hodgson. Directors Joseph Hornby
George Holt, Isaac Cooke, Hugh Hornby, Charles Turner, Thomas Sands,
Edward Wilson.
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Elections
Reform elections William Brown and Henry Booth supported Thomas
Thornley, Also Joseph Langton (manager of the Bank of Liverpool) and
George Carr Glynn (the bank’s London broker) were reformers not Tories.
Hodgson as a member of the freemen supported Lord Sandon as did John
Moss, William Earle, Charles Lawrence, & T. B. Horsfall.
13. Some Potted Biographical Notes
1. Thomas Darnley Anderson
Partner in the mercantile firm of Glen & Anderson with George Glenn,
who was by contrast a liberal who died in 1885 aged 83. They imported a
wide range of goods from America including wood, cotton, fish etc and
also transported emigrants to America. Also on the Board of Royal
Insurance Co with Samuel Holme and Charles Turner. He married
Dorothy Horsfall the daughter of Charles Horsfall in 1847. Lived in
Northumberland Terrace Everton and in 1852 stood for Everton &
Kirkdale ward. A borough magistrate and Mayor of Liverpool 1859/60.
Supported a scriptural education for the poor and sanitary reform.
Supported many charities including Reformatory Association. Schools
attached to St. George’s Everton erected at his sole expense. Built Christ
Church Everton and Emmanuel Church West Derby Rd. A grave and
sedate man with a marked Scottish accent. Died at Waverley Abbey,
Farnham in Surrey in 1876 aged 60 leaving £250,000
2. Robert Benson
A Kendal merchant and Quaker who married Sarah Rathbone, daughter of
William Rathbone III, and joined in partnership with William Rathbone
IV as Rathbone, Benson, which firm James Cropper joined in 1796. After
1800 Traded as Cropper Benson and Co. The sons of both Cropper and
Benson joined the firm, Robert R. Benson after 1806, and John and
Edward Cropper after 1818/20. David Hodgson was also involved in
Cropper Benson & Co. Robert R. Benson married Mary, daughter of
David Dockray a Lancaster West India merchant whose wife was the
daughter of William Dilworth, banker. Although like John Gladstone they
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were early involved in the East India trade their principal business was in
American Cotton but they also traded in East India sugars.
3. Rev William Bevan
Abolitionist Society secretary &Minister of Newington Independant
Chapel, Renshawe Street ,member of the Peace Society along with the
Rathbones. He left Renshaw St to become secretary to the Evangelical
Alliance.
4. William Brown
(1784-1864). Father, Alexander Brown emigrated to Baltimore from
Belfast and re-established himself as a linen merchant. William returned
to Liverpool and in partnership with his brothers traded as W & J Brown
after 1812 which became the largest Liverpool cotton importer. 1st
Chairman Bank of Liverpool. Alderman and borough magistrate and a
free trade supporter of liberal John Denison. MP for South Lancs after
1846.
5. Isaac Cooke.
Cotton broker & Quaker. Partner in Cook, Comer and Hodgson (Isaac) in
1821/22, by 1822 importing Alabama cotton in conjunction with the
Rathbones. Cooke and William Comer dissolved partnership in 1828.
Contributer to the African Institution. Traded as Isaac Cooke and Co.
When his sons came in, in 1833, became Isaac Cooke and Sons. Sons
were Isaac B Cooke and George Cooke. Isaac retired 1840. Founding
director of the Bank of Liverpool.
6. The Croppers
James Cropper (1773–1840) became apprenticed to Rathbone and
Benson and started his own brokerage with Benson which by 1801 was
trading to America for Cotton and flour, but also fruit from Portugal. His
uncle was Jonathan Binns. Had two sons John and Edward and a daughter
who married Joseph Sturge of Birmingham. John elected councillor for
South Toxteth 1832 but resigned 1839, died 1874 aged 77.
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John Cropper left the Quakers and attended a chapel in Great George St
(preacher Dr Raffles) as did other Anglicans did including John Gladstone
& the Bickersteths. Gladstone had St Andrews, Renshaw Street built.
Cropper became a Baptist and a deacon at the Pembroke Baptist Chapel
under Rev C.M. Birrell
7. Lister Ellis
Seems to have farmed in the neighbourhood of Carlisle before coming to
Liverpool in the early 1820’s. Member of the Select Vestry. Gave
evidence to a Parlimentary Select Committee on the operation of the poor
laws in 1828. On the Liverpool committee of the North British Fire &
Life Assurance Co. Associated with the School for the Blind. Thomas
Tobin’s son James Aspinall married Lister Elis’ daughter Olivia Maria
and Tobin’s son Thomas married Ellis’daughter Catherine. Partner with
Charles Shand and his son Francis Shand in Shand, Ellis and Shand, West
India Merchants. Francis Shand was for some time Tory councillor for
Everton ward. Shand was a major shareholder in the Royal Bank of
Liverpool. Ellis was significantly involved in the Liverpool to Manchester
Railroad. According The Legacies of the British Slave Trade project
Adam Hodgson was his executor on his death sometime before 1835 and
pursued compensation due to his estate for slaves held on Plantation Profit
in Demerara which he may have obtained in a similar way to Gladstone
by holding mortgages as security for loans.
8. John Gladstone
1764-1851 After apprenticeship in Edinburgh and experience in his
father’s corn business trading to the Baltic he joined Edgar Corrie in
Liverpool in 1787 to trade in grain and tobacco from America. In 1801 he
joined his brother, Robert, trading in sugar and cotton from the West
Indies. As a result he acquired plantations in Demerara. Chairman of the
West India Association and by1809 half his wealth was in West India
plantations in Demerara and Jamaica. Initially attended the
Unitarian/Presbyterian Renshaw St. chapel but became Anglican
following his 2nd Marriage to Anne Mackenzie Robertson. He built St
Andrews Episcopal church in Renshaw St and St Thomas, Seaforth, close
to his Liverpool estate, as well as St Thomas, Toxteth. An Evangelical
involved in the Liverpool Auxilliary Bible Society. With James Cropper
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and Samuel Hope he gave Institution House for the use of Evangelical and
moral reform societies in 1818. Initially attached to the Whig radicals and
a member of Roscoe’s election committee in 1807 and allied with
American merchants such as Rathbone, Cropper, and Benson over the
threat to trade posed by the War of 1812. He favoured promotion of
Indian cotton and imposing tariffs on American cotton and opening trade
to the East. Became increasingly conservative and quarrelled bitterly with
Cropper over emancipation yet also favoured Catholic Emancipation. His
brothers Robert, Murray, James and Hugh all became Liverpool
merchants. Robert was chairman of the East India Association. His son
Robertson Gladstone took over much of the family business interests in
Liverpool. John Gladstone returned to an estate in Scotland in 1833 and
died in1854.
9. Isaac Hadwen
1753-1842. A Quaker who joined the Liverpool Bible society at its
formation. His son Isaac Hadwen jun. was in business with Thomas Binns
(another Quaker) in the leather trade. Both father and son remained
Quakers.
10. George Holt
A cotton broker and banker of liberal politics. Apprenticed to the cotton
brokerage of Samuel Hope and joined as a partner in 1812 which
diversified into banking. The partnership was dissolved in 1823 with
Samuel Hope going into cotton broking and George Holt into banking.
Involved with the formation of the Mechanics Institute and gave
Blackburne House as a girls’ school to the institute. Town Councillor
from1835 to 56. Chairman of the Water Committee and member of the
Dock Board. Built India Buildings, Water St for his offices in 1833. Died
1863
11. Samuel Holme
Tory and supporter of the Anglican Schools along with T. B. Horsfall
Charles Lawrence and so on. Born 1800 son of an extensive Everton
builder James Holme to whom he was apprenticed and later joined by his
younger brother James Holme in the firm of Samuel and James Holme.
Contracted for major public works such as St George’s Hall and for
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railway projects. Possibly the largest employer in Liverpool. Promoted
Liverpool Tradesmens Conservative Association. Councillor for South
Toxteth and Mayor in 1852 succeeding Thomas Littledale. Supporter of
numerous charities particularly those of the Church of England, the
Collegiate School and of municipal movements such as the Health of
Towns and the Waterworks.
12. Samuel Hope
Commenced business as a cotton broker in 1803 at 2 Water Street took as
his apprentice George Holt in 1807 and partner in 1812 also liberal in
views, a dissenter and abolitionist and free-trader. Built Everton Terrace
in 1820. After dissolution of partnership with Holt in 1823 continued as a
banker in Samuel Hope & Co in Water Street close to the Kings Arms
which later became the Parish Offices. In 1836 he and his partner Edward
Burrell converted to a joint-stock bank as the Liverpool Borough Bank.
Died in 1837 aged 57. The Borough Bank got into trouble in the crisis of
1847 and again in 1857 when it closed.
13. Thomas Berry and Charles Horsfall
T. B. Horsfall was born in 1805 at No. 12 Netherfield Road North and
died in December 1878 aged 75. The son of Charles Horsfall he joined
Charles Horsfall and Son. 4 times married; 1834 Jane Anne Moore, 1847
Mary Cox daughter of E. S. Cox of Brailsford Hall, Derbyshire, 1863
Sophia daughter of Rev. W. Leeke of Derbyshire and lastly the 4th
daughter of Rev Thomas Nolan. He was an Anglican Conservative and an
ally of Hugh McNeile. He contested Scotland Ward in 1837 against the
liberal William Thornhill who won by 13 votes. Elected in 1844 he
became mayor of Liverpool in November 1847. Presented with an address
of thanks by the inhabitants for his suppression of the chartists and
repealers. Elected M.P. for Derby but unseated on petition. Elected
member for Liverpool 1853, stood down 1868. Erected Christ Church
Great Homer Street in memory of his father where his daughter received
the first baptism. He and brother George Henry Horsfall gave £1000 to
rebuild the Southern Hospital. Prominent in charities; Church of England
School Society, Lancashire Female Refuge, Liverpool Church Building
Society, West Lancashire Church Missionary Society. He made his home
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at Bellamour Hall, Staffordshire and died in Torquay. His son Charles
died in Fernando Poo in 1873 aged 23.
Charles Horsfall, 1776-1846, lived at Brooke House, Waterloo. Took an
interest in the copper sheathing of vessels after Humphrey Davy’s
experiments. Invested in the West Inda and African trade. In the latter he
was associated with John Tobin. In 1846 his brig Lady Sale was detained
by the Portuguese at Ambriz accused of slave trading – there seems to
have been no truth in it - their trade was in palm oil gold dust and ivory.
Became Mayor in 1832 during the cholera outbreak – Tory in politics. His
3rd son Charles married Charlotte Elizabeth Cox in 1839. His daughter
Dorothy married Thomas Darnley Anderson in 1847. George Henry
Horsfall married Sarah Scott Hodgson daughter of Isaac Scott Hodgson of
Huddersfield, Jamaica producing sons Charles & George Hodgson
Horsfall and daughters Charlotte & Elizabeth. Isaac Scott Hodgson not
known to be related to Adam Hodgson.
14. John Moss
John Moss’s father Thomas was apprenticed to Thomas Case in 1762 who
was married to Margaret Clayton. Case was in partnership with her sister
Sarah in a coal business and after whom Clayton Sq. was named. Also in
the insurance business with Gregson Case & Co. Thomas Moss invested
in the slave trade from 1776 to 1804. Thomas Moss became a freeman in
1770. Timber merchant trading as Taylor Moss &Co dissolved in 1776
but Moss continued on the East Side of Salthouse Dock. 1777 married
Jane Arrowsmith. 1780 moved to St George’s Dock purchased land at
Low Hill through which Moss St and Gildart St (another owner) were
built. Lived in Paradise St. 1796 married Miss Griffies, Roscoe’s wife’s
sister, lived in Rainford Gardens but moved to St Ann St. Son John Moss
became a partner in 1803 in general merchant and timber trade. Thomas
died 1805. John Born 1782 and in1805 married Hannah Taylor.
Discontinued timber trade but formed a bank at 4 Exchange buildings in
1807 in partnership with Roger and George Dale and Edward Rogers. In
1811 brother Henry entered the bank and they built premises at the end of
Dale St. Lived at Mossley Hill and later Otterspool. Became JP in 1816.
In 1822 became involved in the Liverpool to Manchester Railway and
was chairman until Charles Lawrence took over in 1824. Chairman of the
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Liverpool and Birmingham Railway in 1831 and also promoted railway
ventures abroad. Held large sugar estates in Demerara like John Gladstone
with whom he corresponded. Gave land to build St Annes, Aigburth in
1837 where he was buried in 1858.
15. Rathbones
William III 1726-89. Originally a timber merchant he established a wide
ranging commission trade between Europe, the West Indies and America.
He was a late convert to anti-slavery views and was perhaps influenced by
his son William IV (1757-1809). Supplied Clarkson with information and
his contact with Robert Norris. Succeeded in business by his son on his
death who began in partnership with Robert Benson a Kendal grocer and
Quaker which firm the young James Cropper joined. On William IV’s
death succeeded by William V and Richard Rathbone which firm Adam
Hodgson joined. William V was a prominent Liberal dissenter and
reformer and supporter of Catholic Emancipation.
16. James Ryley
Quaker and liberal in politics partner of Adam Hodgson in Hodgson &
Ryley
17. John Tobin
Sir John Tobin (1763-1851) master of slaving vessels in the 1790’s
married Sarah Aspinall (1770-1853) daughter of James Aspinall (1729-
1787) a prominent slave trader. After abolition in 1807 pursued the
legitimate palm oil trade using his contacts in Old Calabar in partnership
with Charles Horsfall and his brother Thomas. A leading Liverpool Tory
allied to the Gladstones, Canning and Huskisson. Became involved in the
Liverpool to Manchester Railway. Thomas Tobin eldest son of Thomas
Tobin married Catherine Ellis in 1835 the daughter of the late Lister Ellis.
Probably part of the Canning Cycle of leading Liverpool Tories which
included John Gladstone, Sir John Drinkwater, and John Moss. Harold
Littledale married Margaret the youngest daughter of Sir John Tobin
1833.
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18. John Yates
1755-1826 Unitarian minister. Minister Kaye St Chapel after 1777.
Associate of James Currie and a radical in politics along with fellow
minister William Shepherd (1768-1847). Delivered a sermon reprobating
the Slave Trade in early1788 which caused offence to some of his
congregation but which was also widely praised.
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