Captain Noel Chavasse

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19 Abercromby Square

Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse VC & Bar, MC (9 November 1884 – 4 August 1917) was a British medical doctor and British Army officer who is one of only three people to be awarded a Victoria Cross twice.
The battlefield of Mametz was to see acts of heroism by Captain Chavasse, the only man to be awarded the Victoria Cross twice during the First World War. In 1916, Chavasse was hit by shell splinters while rescuing men in no-man's land. It is said he got as close as 25 yards from the German line, where he found three men and continued throughout the night under a constant rain of sniper bullets and bombing. He performed similar heroics in the offensive at Passchendaele to gain a second VC and become the most highly decorated British serviceman in the war. Although operated upon, he was to die of his wounds two days later in 1917.

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Peter Ellis

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40 Falkner Square

Peter Ellis (born 1808, died 1888) was a Liverpudlian architect. He lived for a time at 40 Falkner Square, on which an English Heritage Blue Plaque is now sited.
He designed the revolutionary Oriel Chambers in 1864 at the corner of Water Street and Covent Garden in Liverpool, said by some to be the finest building in Liverpool and one of the most influential buildings of its age.
Ellis's only other known commission was 16 Cook Street, Liverpool, of 1866. Like Oriel Chambers, this building has an extraordinary expanse of glass for its period.
He died of a stomach ulcer on June 6, 1888.
Ellis' buildings influenced the later work of the United States architect John Wellborn Root, who lived in Liverpool for a period.

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John Brodie

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28 Ullet Road

John Alexander Brodie (1858 – 1934) was a British civil engineer.Brodie began his professional career in 1875 working in the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board engineering department under Chief Engineer George Fosbery Lyster, following this he set up a private consultancy and spent some time working in Spain. In 1889 he invented the goal net for use in football matches and he said that this was the invention of which he was the most proud. Brodie returned to Liverpool in 1898 as the city engineer suggesting several improvements for the town such as a ring road, electric trams and the East Lancashire Road.

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William Rathbone

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Greenbank House Greenbank Lane

William Rathbone VI (11 February 1819 — 6 March 1902) was an English merchant and businessman noted for his philanthropic and public work. He was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1868 and 1895.

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