Recollections of a Busy Life Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1
Recollections of a Busy Life Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1
William Bower Forwood
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Looking back it seems to me that the Town Council was composed of Goliaths in those days, men of large minds, and that our debates were conducted with a staid decorum and order which have long since disappeared. WiUiam Earle, J. J. Stitt, Charles Turner, M. P. , F. A. Clint, Edward Whitley, J. R. Jeffery, are names which come back to me as prodigies of eloquence. I remember venturing to make a modest speech shortly after I was elected, and one of the seniors touching me on the shoulder and sayi...ng, ** Young man, leave speaking to your elders "; but they did queer things in those good old days. Many of the aldermen were rarely seen ; they only put in an appearance on the 9th November to record their vote on the election of the Mayor. I was early placed on a deputation to London. I think there were six or seven deputations in London at one time, each attended by a deputy town clerk. We stayed at the Burlington Hotel, and had seats 'provided for us in the theatre and opera, and 8o Recollections of a Busy Life.
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