PREFACE.
A FOREWORD.
CONTENTS. A FOREWORD. PAGE. CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS 1 My Father
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Liverpool, 1836 Frontispiece . Shaw's
CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS.
CHAPTER II. VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.
CHAPTER III. LIVERPOOL.
CHAPTER IV. BUSINESS LIFE.
CHAPTER V. PUBLIC LIFE.
CHAPTER VI. THE FENIAN TROUBLES.
CHAPTER VII. THE TOWN COUNCIL.
CHAPTER VIII. LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND ARTS COMMITTEE.
CHAPTER IX. KNIGHTHOOD AND FREEDOM OF LIVERPOOL.
CHAPTER X. POLITICAL WORK.
CHAPTER XI. JUDICIAL WORK.
CHAPTER XII. BLUNDELLSANDS, CROSBY AND BROMBOROUGH.
CHAPTER XIII. DIRECTORSHIPS. The Overhead Railway.
CHAPTER XIV. THE CHURCHES.
CHAPTER XV. PHILANTHROPY, CHARITABLE AND SOCIAL WORK.
CHAPTER XVI. THE SEAMEN'S ORPHANAGE, Etc.
CHAPTER XVII. THE EARL OF DERBY. Appointments to the County Bench.
CHAPTER XVIII. TRAVELS.
CHAPTER XIX. RECREATIONS.
CHAPTER XX. OBITER DICTA.
RECOLLECTIONS
OF A
BUSY LIFE.
Painted by S. Walters.] [Engraved by R. G. Reeve.
View of the Port of Liverpool, 1836.
BEING THE
REMINISCENCES
LIVERPOOL MERCHANT
1840-1910.
BY
SIR WILLIAM B. FORWOOD D.L. J.P.
ILLUSTRATED WITH SEVENTEEN PLATES
LIVERPOOL: HENRY YOUNG & SONS 1910.
To my Children
and
Grandchildren.
