Restless Enterprise: A Free Methodist Family in Victorian Liverpool - Couverture rigide

Rigby-Jones, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1804200786 ISBN 13 : 9781804200780

Editeur : Fonthill Media Ltd, 2026

Synopsis

Set against the background of Liverpool’s rapid development as a port, ‘Restless Enterprise’ explores the achievements of the author’s three-times great-grandfather, Richard Lloyd, and his family. Aged fourteen, Richard arrived from Wales in 1836 and would be one of four generations of his family to hold the ancient post of Official Gauger to the Port of Liverpool. He was head of a family of successful businessmen, academics, ministers, and activists.  His son, Richard John, combined a career as a port gauger with being reader in phonetics at Liverpool University and a leading Esperanto scholar; his brother-in-law, Thomas Snape, was an MP and campaigner for peace and education after selling his chemical works in Widnes; and his son-in-law, Silas Hocking, became the most popular novelist of his generation. His breakthrough novel, ‘Her Benny’, was based on his experiences as a minister in Liverpool’s slums. Their sum was greater than their parts. United by their Liberal politics and their commitment to a breakaway Methodist denomination they exemplified the Victorian nonconformist conscience.

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À propos de l'auteur

John Rigby-Jones read classics at Oxford and, after qualifying as a chartered accountant, worked in the private healthcare sector for more than thirty years. He retired in 2015 at the age of sixty.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fonthill Media Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1804200786
• ISBN 13: 9781804200780
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 298
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