Born in 1809 in Liverpool, England, at 62 Rodney Street, William Ewart Gladstone was the fourth son of the merchant Sir John Gladstone from Leith ( now a suburb of Edinburgh ), and his second wife, Anne MacKenzie Robertson, from Dingwall, Ross-shire.

Born into a Welsh family living in Wallasey, England, in 1893, Lewis was studying English and French at Liverpool University when the First World War broke out.

Born as Philip St. John Basil Rathbone in Johannesburg to English parents, Edgar Philip Rathbone, a mining engineer and scion of the Liverpool Rathbone family, and Anna Barbara ( née George ), a violinist, he had two older half-brothers, Harold and Horace, as well as two younger siblings, Beatrice and John.

Born in Ballybane, County Galway, Ireland, although some sources claim Liverpool, he emigrated to England and worked as a ship radio operator at the age of 14.

Born in Liverpool, McDonnell's family moved to the south of England when he was very young ; his father became a bus driver and was a branch secretary of the Transport and General Workers ' Union.

Born in Liverpool, Johnson moved to Ireland in the 1890s when he became involved in trade union and labour politics.

Born in Merseyside, he was educated at the local Huyton Secondary School, the Kirkby College of Further Education, and the Liverpool John Moores University.

Born Mary Jane Blair in 1843, Liverpool, to an Irish Catholic family, Mary's family had been in show business for some years, and she grew up to be a theatrical " Jane of All Trades "-stagehand, usherette, bit-part actress.

Born in Liverpool to William Alfred Whitty ( c. 1837 – 1876 ) and Mary Louisa ( née Ashton, ca.

Born in Bolton and educated in Rochdale after the death of his father, he was apprenticed from 1814 to 1821 to a merchant in Liverpool.

Born in Birkenhead, Cheshire ) ( now part of Merseyside ), Taaffe first joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, before joining the Labour Party where he was attracted to the radical element in the Liverpool Labour Party.

Born on Rodney Street in Liverpool, Monsarrat was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Born in Liverpool, United Kingdom, the son of a Ford, Austin and Morris dealer, Booth has always had a passion for cars and the automotive industry.

Born in England in 1931 of Irish immigrant parents and raised in Liverpool, Professor has vivid memories of the World War II wartime Blitz there and, while his elementary school was closed because of the bombing, of being homeschooled by his mother whose own education in a tiny village on the edge of Connemare had ended at the age of 14.

Born in Liverpool, Merseyside, Lee rose through the ranks at Liverpool after joining on an apprenticeship in September 1975, making his first team debut on 8 April 1978, as a 6th minute substitute for David Johnson.

Born in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, Lancashire, England, Rodney Robert Porter received his Bachelors of Sciences degree from the University of Liverpool in 1939 for Biochemistry.

Born Christopher Crummy in Oldham, Lancashire in 1941, Curtis came to Liverpool when he was four and went to primary school where he met Mike Prendergast.

Born in Almeley, Herefordshire, Harris married Emily Dickinson, a widow, in Liverpool in 1848.

Born to Adolf's half-brother, Alois Hitler, Jr., and his first wife, Bridget Dowling in Liverpool, William later moved to Germany and subsequently escaped, eventually going to the United States where he enlisted to fight in World War II.

Born in Walton, Liverpool, she is the daughter of a butcher who had a shop in Toxteth.

Born in Rothwell, Leeds, West Yorkshire, Smith started his career with Leeds and scored in his first team debut against Liverpool, aged 18.

Born on 15 May 1863 in Liverpool, England, Hornby was the son of John Oswald Hornby, a provision merchant and his wife Martha Hornby ( née Thomlinson ).

Born in Liverpool, Roberts was educated at St Mary's College, Crosby and the University of Oxford ( Keble College, now Honorary Fellow ), graduating with a degree in Modern Languages in 1968 and proceeded to take his MA in 1972.

Born in Liverpool in 1950, Quilliam gained her Psychology degree at the University of Liverpool followed by a PGCE.

Born in Riga in Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant.

Born in Venice, Republic of Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a wealthy paper merchant in Venice, he studied violin and singing.

Born in Kensington, London as Herbert Draper Beerbohm, Tree was the second son and second child of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm ( 1810 – 1892 ), of Dutch, Lithuanian, and German origin, who had come to England in about 1830 and set up as a prosperous corn merchant.

Born in Lipnik ( Kunzendorf ) near Bielitz, Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire ( today a part of Bielsko-Biała, Poland ), Schnabel was the youngest of three children born to Isidor Schnabel, a textile merchant, and his wife Ernestine ( née Labin ).

Born in London, Hogg was the son of Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, who was Lord Chancellor under Stanley Baldwin, and grandson of another Quintin Hogg, a merchant, philanthropist, and educational reformer.

Born in Florence, he was the son of a da Andrea Carnesecchi, a merchant who under the patronage of the Medici, and especially of Giulio de ' Medici as Pope Clement VII, rapidly rose to high office at the papal court.

Born Jordi Farragut, son of Antoni Farragut and Joana Mesquida, his father became a Spanish merchant captain from Minorca.

Born in London and descended from an old Norfolk family, Gresham was one of two sons and two daughters of Sir Richard Gresham, a leading London merchant, who for some time held the office of Lord Mayor, and who for his services as agent of Henry VIII in negotiating loans with foreign merchants received the honour of knighthood.

Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Pidgeon was the son of Hannah ( née Sanborn ), a homemaker, and Caleb Burpee Pidgeon, a merchant who owned a men's clothing store.

Born in London to a Lutheran Saxon merchant and his Jewish wife, when he was three his family relocated to

Born at Theobalds House, near Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, he was the son of the merchant, Benjamin Shute.

Born in Montpellier, Cambon was the son of a wealthy cotton merchant.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Andrew Sterett was the son of John Sterett, a former Revolutionary War captain and a successful shipping merchant.

Born in Woodford, Essex, England, Smith was the son of merchant Robert Smith ( 1739 – 1827 ) and Maria Olier ( 1750 – 1801 ), who suffered from epilepsy.

Born at 17 Euston Square, London, he was the son of Frederick Harrison ( 1799-1881 ), a stockbroker and his wife Jane, daughter of Alexander Brice, a Belfast granite merchant.

Born at Medina-Sidonia, Cervera was a highly decorated veteran of the Spanish Navy, and served with some distinction during the Carlist Wars before retiring from the active service to act as head of Spain's Ministerio de Marina, the bureaucratic body that governed the naval and merchant marine forces of Spain.

Born a son of a Hui merchant in Kaifeng, he became literate in Arabic from his mother and aunt.

Born at Waverley Abbey, near Farnham, Surrey, Thomson was the son of John Buncombe Poulett Thomson, a London merchant, by his wife Charlotte, daughter of John Jacob.

Born near Hempstead, New York on Long Island, Truxtun had little formal education before joining the crew of the British merchant ship Pitt at the age of twelve.

Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Decatur was a merchant captain before the Revolution.

Born into a wealthy merchant family with ties to the Narita area, Danjūrō relished his family's former samurai status by playing heroic characters doing noble deeds, developing in the process a rough, manly style known as aragoto.

Born in the Edgbaston district of Birmingham, England on 31 October 1890, son of a coal merchant called Arthur Brockhurst, he soon showed precocious drawing skills and entered the Birmingham School of Art at the age of twelve.

Born in East Coker, Somerset and educated at King's School, Bruton, Dampier sailed on two merchant voyages to Newfoundland and Java, before joining the Royal Navy in 1673, taking part in the two battles of Schooneveld in June of that year.

Born in Cadegliano-Viconago, Italy, near Lake Maggiore and the Swiss border, Menotti was the sixth of eight children of Alfonso and Ines Menotti, his father being a coffee merchant.