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.

Extract from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ellis_(architect)

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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James Newlands

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James Newlands became Britain’s first Borough Engineer for Liverpool in 1847 and paved the way for municipal engineering as we know it today. Newlands came to the post with very little experience but he soon proved his capabilities in engineering the world’s earliest integrated sewerage system in Liverpool. The significance of this cannot be overrated. Newlands succeeded in doubling the average life expectancy during his years in office. The average life expectancy for people in Liverpool was just 19 when he entered office in 1847.

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Arnold Dyson

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Arnold Dyson of Liverpool was Britain's first Mr Universe (Pro) in 1953 having come 6th in 1951 and 2nd in 1952.
He became 1957 World Bar and Nail Breaking Champion.
His career-best feats included:
Breaking a 6” nail in 6 secs.
Breaking four x 6” nails in 59 secs.
Breaking a 12” x 7/16” best quality iron bar in 29 seconds, the bar being supplied by Geoff Morris his rival.
Breaking an 18” x ½” bar in 29 secs.


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David Lewis

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David Lewis (1823 – 4 December 1885), was an English merchant and philanthropist of Jewish origin.

He was born in London. Settling in Liverpool in 1840, he had by 1856 accumulated enough capital to start his own business as a boys' clothier in Bold Street. Subsequently he opened a second establishment; and thereafter he gradually developed one of the largest retail businesses of the kind in England, erecting a department store in Liverpool, Lewis's. Similar stores were founded by him in Manchester, Sheffield, and Birmingham.


Extract from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lewis_(English_merchant)