RECOLLECTIONS

OF A

BUSY LIFE.

Painted by S. Walters.] [Engraved by R. G. Reeve.

View of the Port of Liverpool, 1836.

RECOLLECTIONS
OF A BUSY LIFE

BEING THE

REMINISCENCES

OF A

LIVERPOOL MERCHANT

1840-1910.

BY

SIR WILLIAM B. FORWOOD
D.L. J.P.

ILLUSTRATED WITH SEVENTEEN PLATES

"Work for some good, be it ever so slowly;

Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly;

Labour! True labour is noble and holy."

LIVERPOOL:
HENRY YOUNG & SONS
1910.

To my Children

and

Grandchildren.