Between the years 2013 – 2018, I taught a local history group in Anfield, in Liverpool, named the Rawdon History Group, the group being named after local industrialist and philanthropist Christopher Rawdon. As part of a history project with the … Continue reading →
It has been a year since my biography was published on the lost Liverpool nineteenth century philanthropist Christopher Rawdon and to celebrate, the Rawdon history group invited Timothy Rawdon-Mogg, a descendant of Christopher’s brother Joshua, to visit some of the … Continue reading →
In Christopher Rawdon: The Lost Philanthropist I examine the life
My next book will be my first non-Masonic work, it will examine the 19th century Liverpool merchant and philanthropist Christopher Rawdon. Rawdon was also a Unitarian, and a theme that is discussed in the book examines how Unitarianism was an … Continue reading →
The new biography I am writing on Liverpool based merchant and philanthropist Christopher Rawdon is on track, and new research is revealing new aspects of his life and that of his extended family. The Rawdon Briggs branch of the family … Continue reading →
Writing history is something of a passion, and for the past fifteen years or so I have been writing exclusively on Masonic history. More recently however, I have been tackling a biography on nineteenth century Liverpool cotton merchant and philanthropist … Continue reading →
Christopher Rawdon was a cotton merchant who resided in Anfield, Liverpool, in the early nineteenth century. His father, also called Christopher, who had resided in Charlestown, Yorkshire, had a connection with Liverpool through his cotton business, and his three sons; … Continue reading →
