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Application NumberPL/INV/0110/15

Site Address33 Hope Street Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool L1 9DZ 

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ProposalTo erect a commemorative plaque in recognition of the Swire family connection with Liverpool's Maritime History. The details are set out below. The plaque would be a blue heritage style plaque. John Swire (1793 ¿ 1847) John Swire was born in Halifax in to a land-owning family but was the wrong side of the family and the estates passed to a cousin. His grandfather and father were both in business and both were unsuccessful and declared bankrupt on more than one occasion. John Swire arrives in Liverpool at the age of 17 to find his own way. His family had possibly bought him an apprenticeship with another distant cousin. John Swire strikes out on his own in business in 1816 at the age of 23 as a merchant and this is the date we trace the establishment of the company to. By the time of his death from cancer at the age of 54 he had built a successful enterprise and was enjoying the trappings that came with it ¿ including the house in Hope St. John Samuel Swire (1825 ¿ 1898) John Samuel Swire is born in Liverpool in 1825 to John Swire and his wife Maria (Roose). John Samuel Swire takes over the business on his father¿s death at the age of just 22 and is perhaps your archetypal Victorian entrepreneur. He was as upright and as principled as they came but stubborn and dogged with it. He enjoyed the challenge of business and he enjoyed ¿winning¿. He was a close friend and business associate with Alfred Holt and a ¿pillar of the community¿. It was the drive of John Samuel Swire (perhaps partly driven by misfortune - including the early death of his first wife) that took the firm to Australia and then to China, Japan and Hong Kong. 

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