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Memorials to Mary Lawson and Francis Beaumont
A Tale of Romance and Tragedy: A Popular Actress and her RAF husband Mary Lawson was a highly popular and sought-after stage and screen actress in the 1920s and 30s. From working class roots from County Durham, she made her first appearance singing for wounded...
Liverpool memorials: Alfred G Rowe
Memorial to a well-travelled man who lost his life in the Titanic disaster Alfred G Rowe was born in Peru, one of John James and Agnes Rowe’s seven children. His father was a successful merchant involved in trading and shipping between Liverpool and Chile. Alfred was...
Liverpool shipowner Sir Percy Elly Bates, 4th Baronet
12 May 1879 – 16 October 1946 Percy Bates was the second son of Edward Percy Bates and grandson of Sir Edward Bates, 1st Baronet and a Conservative Member of Parliament. He dedicated much of his life to ship-building and in his role as Chairman of the Cunard-White...
Sir William Watson, Liverpool Poet
2 August 1858 – 13 August 1935 William Watson was the youngest of three sons of a master grocer. Born in Burley, Yorkshire, he moved to Liverpool with his family at an early age and grew up there. His early interest was in Romantic poetry but his first volume met with...
Sir Henry Wade Deacon
1852 – 1932, Widnes Scientist, Industrialist and Public Figure Sir Henry Wade Deacon was a son of Henry Deacon, a major industrialist and one of the first entrepreneurs to establish chemical works in Widnes. Henry Deacon counted Michael Faraday, one of the most...
George Herbert Tyson Smith (1883 – 1972)
English Sculptor born in Liverpool The legacy of George Herbert Tyson Smith can be seen throughout the Liverpool and Merseyside area. Born in Liverpool in 1883, he was first apprenticed to a stonemason, then studied at Liverpool University and the Liverpool College of...