William Rathbone : a memoir / by Eleanor F. Rathbone.

  • Eleanor Rathbone
Date:
1905
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Credit: William Rathbone : a memoir / by Eleanor F. Rathbone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    » THE EARLIER WILLIAM RATHBONES OF LIVERPOOL The first William Rathbone to settle in Liverpool was the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this Memoir. He was born in 1696, the third son of William Rathbone of Gawsworth, near Macclesfield, and of Martha Vigour his wife. At an unknown date, but certainly before 1730, he left that most picturesque and charming of Cheshire hamlets, and came, as it is believed, to set up a sawmill in Liverpool, being perhaps attracted thither by the recent and rapidly growing pros¬ perity of the town. At the beginning of the eighteenth century the population had been five thousand and odd. By 1710 it had doubled. By 1750 it had doubled again, reaching 20,000. Only at the very end of the previous century had the town attained the dignity of a separate parish church. Before that it was a mere hamlet in the ecclesiastical parish of Walton, served by a small chapel-of-ease, now the Church of St. Nicholas. 1 B
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