St James' Cemetery.  Liverpool

In developing this site I have had many emails and letters from people from all over the world asking for me to focus on the people who are buried at St. James's.   This would seem to be a logical progression.   I have built a site devoted to a historical part of Liverpool, where the great and small of old Liverpool rest, but this is not just a site of old gravestones and monuments.   It is in recognition and respect of our forefathers (and mothers) who made Liverpool the City that it is.

 

From the heroic Kitty Wilkinson, who devoted her life to the poor, to the sailors who came from all over the world to find their final resting place in this small, quiet corner of Liverpool.

 

If you have any information which you think deserves inclusion in these pages, them mail me.

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	The Rt. Hon. William Huskisson MP.   1770 - 1830.   Has the dubious distinction of being the first fatality of the locomotive, Stephenson's Rocket, during the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester railway in 1830.    Click on the Photograph to go to the page.
	Samuel Holme 1800 - 1872.   County Magistrate and Mayor of Liverpool between the years of 1852 - 1853.  The information has been very kindly supplied by David Holme, the Great Great Nephew of Samuel Holme. Click on the Photograph to go to the page.
	Kitty Wilkinson 1786 - 1860.   The woman who, during the great Cholera epidemics if the 1830's, opened the doors of her small house, so that the neighbours could wash their clothes in the only boiler available.   Thus was born the idea of the Wash House. Click on the photograph to view the page.
	William Daniels, 1813 - 1880.   Known as the Rembrandt of Liverpool, this young man from the famous Scotland Road area of the city, grew to be a notable painter. Click on the photograph to view the page.

	Captain William Harrison 1813 - 1860.   The master of the Great Iron Ship, The Great Eastern. Click on the photograph to view the page.
	Sarah Biffin 1784 - 1850.   Standing 37 inches high, she had her work hung at the Royal Academy.   She is described as 'The armless midget who painted Kings' Click on the photograph to read Richard Whittington Egan's story.
	William Taylor Barry 1784 - 1835.   US Senator, and appointed Postmaster General by President Andrew Jackson.    Died in Liverpool in 1854. Click on the picture to go to the page.
	John Foster 1786 - 1846.  Notable Liverpool Architect who designed the cemetery, as well as some other landmarks in the city. Click on the picture to go to the page.

	Edward Rushton.   1756 - 1814.   An 18th century radical and a co-founder of the Blind School in Liverpool. Click on the picture to go to the page.
	Sir William Brown, 1784 - 1864.  A merchant banker who came to Liverpool after learning his 'Trade' in Baltimore USA.   Donated the money for the building of the William Brown Library in Liverpool. Click on the picture to visit the page.
	Harmood Banner, 1783 - 1865.   Founder of the Liverpool Accountancy  firm of Harmood Banner & Co.   Devoted the latter part of his life to the orphaned children of Liverpool.   Founder of the Liverpool Boys & Girls Orphan Asylum. Click on the picture to go to the page.
	Colonel Thomas Colby, 1784 - 1852.   The longest serving Director of the Ordnance Survey.   Responsible for the mapping of much of Great Britain, though handicapped by a piece of pistol lodged in his skull. Click on the picture to visit the page.

	Captain John Oliver was a veteran of the Battles of the Nile and Copenhagen.   He served aboard HMS Victory with Horatio Nelson at the battle of Trafalger, and lived to the grand old age of 102. Click on the picture to visit the page.
	Sergeant Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson V.C.  The first winner of the Victoria Cross  serving with a Canadian unit under British command. Click on the picture to visit the page.
	Robert Cain.   The founder of Liverpool's most famous brewery. Click on the picture to visit the page