Recollections of a Busy Life

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Author

Forwood, William Bower, Sir, 1840-1928

Title

Recollections of a Busy Life: Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1840-1910

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Michael Forwood, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Merchants -- England -- Liverpool -- Biography

Category

Text

eBook-No.

43701

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43701

Release Date

September 12, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.RECOLLECTIONS OF A BUSY LIFE
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.A FOREWORD.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. LIVERPOOL. — Liverpool in 1860-1870. — The Dock Board. — The Liverpool Exchange. — Commerce. — The American War. — The Southern Bazaar. — The Volunteer Movement. — Intellectual Life. — Society in Liverpool.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. BUSINESS LIFE. — Voyage in the "Great Eastern." — Arrested in New York in 1861. — Leech, Harrison and Forwood.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. PUBLIC LIFE. — Chamber of Commerce. — American Chamber of Commerce. — Joint Committee on Railway Rates. — The United Cotton Association. — International Cotton Convention. — Mayor of Liverpool. — Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales. — Lord Mayor.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. THE FENIAN TROUBLES.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. THE TOWN COUNCIL. — The Town Hall—Its Hospitality. — Work in the City Council. — The Burning of the Landing Stage. — The Water Committee. — Parliamentary Committee. — Manchester Ship Canal. — Corporation Leaseholds.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND ARTS COMMITTEE. — The Walker Art Gallery. — Among the Studios.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. KNIGHTHOOD AND FREEDOM OF LIVERPOOL. — Honorary Freedom of Liverpool.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. POLITICAL WORK.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. JUDICIAL WORK. — Walton Jail. — High Sheriff of Lancashire.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. BLUNDELLSANDS, CROSBY AND BROMBOROUGH. — Crosby Grammar School. — Bromborough.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. DIRECTORSHIPS. — The Overhead Railway. — Opening by the Marquis of Salisbury. — The Bank of Liverpool. — The Cunard Company. — Vibration. — Castle Wemyss. — The Liverpool and Mediterranean Trade. — The White Star Line. — Mr. T. H. Ismay. — Sir Alfred Jones, K.C.M.G.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. THE CHURCHES. — The Building of a Cathedral. — Foundation-Stone Laid by the King. — Consecration of the Lady Chapel. — York House of Convocation. — Church Congress. — New York Cathedral.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. PHILANTHROPY, CHARITABLE AND SOCIAL WORK.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. THE SEAMEN'S ORPHANAGE, Etc. — The Royal Commission on Motors.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. THE EARL OF DERBY. — Appointments to the County Bench. — Prince Fushimi of Japan.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. TRAVELS. — The Franco-German Battlefields. — Costa Rica. — Jamaica. — Mexico. — America in 1905. — Miscellaneous Tours. — The Desert of Sahara. — The Count's Garden, Biskra. — Egypt. — Impressions of India. — Lord Clive.
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. RECREATIONS. — Yacht Racing Association. — Royal Canoe Club. — Gardening.
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. OBITER DICTA. — Success in Life. — Observation. — Imagination.

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