Henry Ernest Milner
English civil engineer and landscape architect
Civil engineer, English, Landscape architect, Male
English
English, Female, Folklorist
Violet Alford
Internationally recognised authority on folk dancing and its related music and folk customs.
English, Entrepreneur, Male, Transport
John Greenwood
John Greenwood (1788–1851) was the keeper of a toll-gate in Pendleton on the Manchester to Liverpool turnpike, who In 1824 inaugurated the United Kingdom’s first omnibus service.
English, Female, Feminist, Horse racing
Florence Nagle
Trainer and breeder of racehorses, a breeder of pedigree dogs, and an active feminist
English, Male, Poet
Robert Southey
Robert Southey (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England’s poet laureate for 30 years, from 1813 until his death in 1843.
English, Financier, Fraud, Male
Ernest Terah Hooley
English financier (1859–1947) who specialised in acquiring companies and then reselling them at inflated prices, making himself substantial profits in the process.
English, Property developer
Marshall Stevens
Property developer whose work with Daniel Adamson and others led to the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal, completed in 1894.
English, Greater Manchester, Library
Manchester Free Library
First library to be set up under the provisions of the Public Libraries Act 1850, in Manchester, England, which allowed local authorities to impose a local tax of one penny to pay for the service.
English, Female, Feminist, Suffragist
Mary Taylor
Early advocate for women’s rights, born in Gomersal in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, (1817–1893).
English, Female, Painter, Suffragist
Emily Ford
Emily Susan Ford (1850–1930), artist and campaigner for women’s rights, was born into a Quaker family in Leeds. She trained as an artist at the Slade School of Art and exhibited at the Royal Academy.
