CONTENTS.
| [A FOREWORD.] | |
| PAGE. | |
| CHAPTER I.—EARLY YEARS | [1] |
| My Father | [2] |
| Edge Hill | [4] |
| Everton | [5] |
| Bootle | [5] |
| Seaforth | [6] |
| The "Great Britain," s.s. | [7] |
| Wrecks on the Seaforth shore | [8] |
| Walton | [10] |
| Aigburth | [10] |
| The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone | [12] |
| His last speech | [13] |
| 1848—Waterloo and Southport Railway: Opening | [15] |
| Edge Lane | [16] |
| Early School-days | [17] |
| Home Life | [21] |
| Wavertree Park | [23] |
| CHAPTER II.—VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD | [25] |
| 1857—Sail in the "Red Jacket" | [25] |
| Australia | [26] |
| West Coast of South America | [27] |
| Easterly gales in the Channel | [28] |
| CHAPTER III.—LIVERPOOL | [31] |
| Liverpool in 1860-1870 | [32] |
| The Town | [33] |
| The Docks | [35] |
| The Dock Board | [37] |
| Election | [38] |
| Birkenhead | [39] |
| Bootle | [41] |
| The Exchange | [42] |
| Cotton Brokers | [44] |
| Commerce | [47] |
| Shipowners | [48] |
| Merchants | [49] |
| The American War of 1861-1865 | [51] |
| Blockade Running | [53] |
| The Southern Bazaar | [55] |
| The Volunteer Movement | [55] |
| Intellectual Life | [57] |
| Society | [60] |
| CHAPTER IV.—BUSINESS LIFE | [64] |
| My Father's Office | [64] |
| Financial Panics, 1857-1866 | [65] |
| 1861—Wrecked in the "Great Eastern" | [67] |
| 1861—Arrested in New York | [69] |
| Leech, Harrison and Forwood | [71] |
| My brother Arthur | [72] |
| CHAPTER V.—PUBLIC LIFE, 1867 | [78] |
| 1868—President Philomathic Society | [78] |
| Professor Huxley | [78] |
| 1868—Elected to the Town Council: Early Experiences | [79] |
| Chamber of Commerce: | |
| 1870—Elected Vice-President | [80] |
| 1871-1874—President of the Chamber | [80] |
| 1878-1881—Elected President of the re-constituted Chamber by the votes of the subscribers to the Exchange News Room | [80] |
| 1870—Fellow Royal Statistical Society | [80] |
| 1872—President of the American Chamber of Commerce | [81] |
| 1873—Chairman of the Joint Committee of the Northern Towns on Railway Rates | [81] |
| 1877—President United Cotton Association, the precursor of the Cotton Association | [82] |
| 1877—President of the International Cotton Convention | [83] |
| 1880—Mayor of Liverpool | [83] |
| Visit of General Sir Frederick Roberts | [83] |
| Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales | [84] |
| The Opening of the North Docks | [84] |
| Fenian Scare | [85] |
| 1903—Lord Mayor | [87] |
| CHAPTER VI.—THE FENIAN TROUBLES | [88] |
| 1882—Attempt to blow up the Town Hall | [88] |
| Infernal Machines | [90] |
| The Pensioner's cork leg | [91] |
| Thanks of the Home Secretary | [92] |
| CHAPTER VII.—THE TOWN COUNCIL | [93] |
| The Town Hall—Its Hospitality | [97] |
| Work in the City Council | [100] |
| 1868-1882—Watch Committee | [100] |
| Burning of the Landing Stage | [101] |
| 1870-1884—Water Committee: The Vyrnwy Scheme | [102] |
| Hawes Water | [102] |
| 1874-1886—Parliamentary Committee | [106] |
| Chairman | [106] |
| Extension of the Boundaries | [106] |
| The Manchester Ship Canal | [107] |
| The Dock Board and the Bridgwater Canal | [108] |
| 1887—Corporation Leaseholds: Chairman of Special Committee to enquire into | [109] |
| Report | [110] |
| 1908—Estate Committee: Chairman | [110] |
| CHAPTER VIII.—LIBRARY, MUSEUM AND ARTS COMMITTEE | [112] |
| 1889—Chairman | [114] |
| 1908—Extension of Free Libraries | [114] |
| Mr. Carnegie | [115] |
| The Museum Extended | [116] |
| The Art Galleries | [117] |
| Among the Studios | [118] |
| Lord Leighton | [118] |
| Mr. Greiffenhagen | [119] |
| Sir John Millais | [120] |
| Sir Hubert Herkomer | [121] |
| Sir John Gilbert | [122] |
| Mr. Whistler | [123] |
| 1908—Retired from the Committee | [123] |
| Mr. R. D. Holt | [128] |
| CHAPTER IX.—KNIGHTHOOD AND FREEDOM OF LIVERPOOL | [130] |
| 1883—Knighthood: At Windsor Castle | [130] |
| Honorary Freedom of City of Liverpool | [131] |
| CHAPTER X.—POLITICAL WORK | [141] |
| Party politics in Liverpool | [141] |
| Conservative Whip | [142] |
| 1865—S. R. Graves, M.P. | [143] |
| 1873—John Torr, M.P. | [143] |
| 1868—Viscount Sandon, M.P. | [144] |
| 1880—Edward Whitley, M.P. | [144] |
| Mr. Rathbone, M.P. | [145] |
| 1868—Election, South-West Lancashire: Mr. Gladstone and Mr. R. A. Cross | [145] |
| 1869—Chairman Waterloo Polling District | [146] |
| 1880—Chairman of the Southport Division | [146] |
| 1886 { The Hon. George A. Curzon | [146] |
| to { | |
| 1899 { Mr. Curzon Member for Southport | [147] |
| Lord Curzon's work as the Viceroy of India | [149] |
| Duties of a Chairman of a Division | [151] |
| Free Trade and Protection | [152] |
| CHAPTER XI.—JUDICIAL WORK | [154] |
| 1873—Placed on Liverpool Bench | [154] |
| 1882—Placed on Lancashire County Bench | [154] |
| 1900—Placed on Cheshire County Bench | [154] |
| 1890—Deputy-Chairman of Quarter Sessions, West Derby Hundred | [154] |
| 1894—Chairman of Quarter Sessions | [154] |
| 1894—Chairman of the County Bench | [155] |
| 1894—Chairman of the Licensing Justices | [155] |
| Chairman of the Visiting Justices, Walton Jail | [157] |
| 1902—Appointed a Deputy-Lieutenant for Lancashire | [154] |
| 1909—High Sheriff for Lancashire | [159] |
| Interesting Ceremony at Lancaster Castle | [161] |
| The King and Queen at Knowsley | [162] |
| CHAPTER XII.—BLUNDELLSANDS, BROMBOROUGH & CROSBY | |
| Blundellsands | [164] |
| Crosby Grammar School | [166] |
| Bromborough | [168] |
| CHAPTER XIII.—DIRECTORSHIPS | [171] |
| 1889—Chairman Overhead Railway | [172] |
| 1893— Opening by the Marquis of Salisbury, Prime Minister | [173] |
| 1898—Chairman of the Bank of Liverpool | [176] |
| 1888—Director of the Cunard Company | [177] |
| Some incidents | [179] |
| Castle Wemyss | [181] |
| Making of the Cunard Company | [181] |
| Liverpool and Mediterranean Trade | [182] |
| White Star Line | [184] |
| Mr. T. H. Ismay | [185] |
| Sir Alfred Jones, K.C.M.G. | [186] |
| 1888—Director Employers' Liability Assurance Company. | [176] |
| CHAPTER XIV.—THE CHURCHES | [188] |
| The Church, 1860-1870 | [188] |
| Dr. McNeile | [189] |
| Dr. Ryle, first Bishop of Liverpool | [190] |
| Nonconformists | [192] |
| The Building of a Cathedral | [194] |
| Early History | [194] |
| Chairman of Executive Committee | [198] |
| Foundation-stone laid by the King | [199] |
| Consecration of the Lady Chapel | [201] |
| Convocation | [203] |
| Church Congress | [204] |
| New York Cathedral | [204] |
| CHAPTER XV.—PHILANTHROPY, CHARITABLE AND SOCIAL WORK | [206] |
| Crusade against intemperance | [207] |
| Workmen's dwellings | [208] |
| Local workers | [209] |
| CHAPTER XVI.—THE SEAMEN'S ORPHANAGE, Etc. | [211] |
| 1905—Royal Commission on Motors | [212] |
| CHAPTER XVII.—THE EARL OF DERBY | [215] |
| Appointments to the County Bench | [215] |
| Prince Fushimi of Japan | [220] |
| CHAPTER XVIII.—TRAVELS | [223] |
| Improvements in Modern Travel | [223] |
| 1871—Franco-Prussian Battlefields | [225] |
| 1891—Costa Rica | [225] |
| Jamaica | [228] |
| 1892—Mexico | [228] |
| Conversion of Mexican Southern Railway Bonds | [229] |
| President Diaz | [230] |
| 1905—America: Tour with Lord Claud Hamilton | [235] |
| President Roosevelt | [236] |
| 1906—The Desert of Sahara | [238] |
| The Count's Garden, Biskra | [240] |
| Egypt | [243] |
| 1907—India: Impressions of | [244] |
| 1906—Lord Clive: The result of a Motor Tour | [250] |
| CHAPTER XIX.—RECREATIONS | [253] |
| Yachting | [253] |
| 1874—Obtained Certificate from the Board of Trade as a Master Mariner | [255] |
| Windermere: Happy Days | [256] |
| History of the Royal Windermere Yacht Club | [257] |
| Yacht Racing Association | [258] |
| One of the Founders | [258] |
| Member of the Council | [258] |
| Chairman of the Committee of Measurement | [258] |
| Royal Canoe Club | [258] |
| 1879—Rear-Commodore Royal Mersey Yacht Club | [257] |
| Gardening | [259] |
| Orchids | [260] |
| CHAPTER XX.—OBITER DICTA | [261] |
| Success in Life | [263] |
| Observation | [266] |
| Imagination | [267] |
| Integrity | [267] |