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William Bower Sir Forwood. Recollections of a Busy Life: Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1840-1910
Recollections of a Busy Life: Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1840-1910
Table of Contents
PREFACE
A FOREWORD
CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS
CHAPTER II. VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD
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
CHAPTER IV. BUSINESS LIFE
Voyage in the "Great Eastern."
Arrested in New York in 1861
Leech, Harrison and Forwood
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
CHAPTER VI. THE FENIAN TROUBLES
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
CHAPTER VIII. LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND ARTS COMMITTEE
The Walker Art Gallery
Among the Studios
CHAPTER IX. KNIGHTHOOD AND FREEDOM OF LIVERPOOL
Honorary Freedom of Liverpool
CHAPTER X. POLITICAL WORK
CHAPTER XI. JUDICIAL WORK
Walton Jail
High Sheriff of Lancashire
CHAPTER XII. BLUNDELLSANDS, CROSBY AND BROMBOROUGH
Crosby Grammar School
Bromborough
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
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
CHAPTER XV. PHILANTHROPY, CHARITABLE AND SOCIAL WORK
CHAPTER XVI. THE SEAMEN'S ORPHANAGE, Etc
The Royal Commission on Motors
CHAPTER XVII. THE EARL OF DERBY
Appointments to the County Bench
Prince Fushimi of Japan
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
CHAPTER XIX. RECREATIONS
Yacht Racing Association
Royal Canoe Club
Gardening
CHAPTER XX. OBITER DICTA
Success in Life
Observation
Imagination
