The Lancashire & North West Magazine | September 2021

Page 58

Hall Caine - A Forgotten Celebrity By Margaret Brecknell

At the time of his death 90 years ago in August 1931, such was the celebrity of author, Hall Caine, that his family received messages of condolence from King George V and the then Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald.

T

homas Henry Hall Caine was born in Runcorn on 14th May 1853. His father John, who originally hailed from the Isle of Man, had moved to Liverpool to find work in the shipbuilding industry, but at the time of his son’s birth was working temporarily at Runcorn

58

Docks. The family soon returned to Liverpool and “Hall”, as he came to be known (the author is said to have disliked his given first name “Thomas”), grew up in Toxteth. On leaving school Caine was apprenticed to a Liverpool architect who was a distant relative of the famous Victorian Prime Minister, William Gladstone. From a young age Caine had been sent to visit his father’s family in the small village of Ballaugh on the west coast of the Isle of Man and it was to the island he fled when, three years into his apprenticeship, he began to suffer from what he later described as “the

LANCASHIRE & NORTH WEST MAGAZINE

first serious manifestation of the nervous attacks which have pursued me through my life”. On this occasion he headed to Kirk Maughold in the north of the island to stay with an uncle, James Teare, who ran the local school there. Tragically Teare fell ill with tuberculosis and died soon afterwards. Caine took on his role as schoolmaster for a year before being reportedly persuaded to return to Liverpool on receiving a letter from his former employer which read, “Why on earth are you wasting your life over there? Come back to your proper work at once.” www.lancmag.com


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook

Articles inside

Presenting: Edward James Furniture Ltd

17min
pages 200-207

It’s Straightforward With Stonebrook

10min
pages 178-185

Honeymoons at Wenningdale Escapes

7min
pages 172-177

An interview with Raphael Ogunrinde

6min
pages 164-171

If Team LM Got Married

4min
pages 156-161

Amanda Owen - The Yorkshire Shepherdess Opens Rossall School’s State-of-the-art New Pre-Prep and Nursery Provision

3min
pages 154-155

Keep Hydrated

5min
pages 140-145

Students Celebrate Stunning Results at Rossall School

3min
pages 152-153

Gardening for Good Health

2min
pages 138-139

New treatment significantly improves mental health in heart disease patients, study finds

6min
pages 136-137

Shana’s Story

7min
pages 130-132

On Your Bike

5min
pages 133-135

Empath: a Gift or a Curse?

17min
pages 124-129

Think Your Half-Term Visit to the Zoo will Support Threatened Species? Think Again...

12min
pages 116-119

How to Mitigate Impostor Syndrome

2min
page 120

5 Steps to a More Mindful You

10min
pages 121-123

Things We Can Do to Save Endangered pecies and Prevent a New Wave of Extinction

3min
pages 114-115

Collisions with Vessels - The Deadliest Threat for Whales

2min
pages 112-113

The Mystery of ‘Patchwork Grazing’ by Giraffes

6min
pages 110-111

How sustainable video is saving Greater Manchester’s peatlands

4min
pages 108-109

BOARDING AT STONYHURST: Where friendships are formed that last a lifetime

4min
pages 100-103

Chorley Pilates

2min
page 97

Feeling Like Trash

6min
pages 98-99

Lynn Meadowcroft - Positivity Pioneer

3min
page 96

A Little Gem in Chorley

3min
page 95

Life Behind the Lens

2min
page 94

Harness the Power of Technology with Sundown Solutions

2min
page 90

Make a Bold Move Today

6min
pages 91-93

Advocacy Focus

2min
page 89

Cornerstone Resources Ltd

2min
page 80

The Body Shop at Home with Treena Hughes

3min
pages 81-83

Sweet Reminiscing by Sharonrose

3min
page 88

Bolton Whites Hotel & Events - Out with the old and in with the new...

2min
page 79

From Tech to Skincare... The journey to becoming true to myself

3min
page 78

Alumni Share Their Perspectives on Engineering

5min
pages 74-75

Multi Award Winning Artisan Food Anybody?

2min
page 70

Dame Floella Benjamin’s Virtual Visit

3min
pages 72-73

Q & A with Pam Molyneux, Smart PA

2min
page 71

Gold and Silver Duke of Edinburgh Achievements

1min
pages 76-77

To Franchise, or Not to Franchise?

3min
page 69

The Heart of Every Business

2min
page 68

Life Could Be Shocking in the 1950’s

17min
pages 62-67

Hall Caine - A Forgotten Celebrity

10min
pages 58-61

New Race Track Opens at Westcliff Primary Academy in Bispham

13min
pages 53-57

Laura Evans Announces Headline Shows

20min
pages 25-31

Joanne Harris hails ‘writing as a force to be reckoned with’ as she introduces the Winners of the 2021 Society of Authors’ Awards

21min
pages 32-39

Call of the Sea Statue Celebrates Blackpool’s Award-Winning Coastline

40min
pages 40-49

Lancashire’s Lost Piers

9min
pages 50-52

Be Our Guest This Summer

0
page 24

Even The Smallest Coffee Morning Really Can Make the Biggest Difference...

4min
pages 22-23

Pre-Raphaelite Artist of Hope: Evelyn De Morgan

6min
pages 16-18

The K’s ...are on Fire

4min
pages 8-9

The Woman In Black

1min
page 13

Blackpool’s BIGGEST Panto IS BACK

2min
page 12

Andrew Lloyd Webber Symphonic Suites Live In Concert

1min
page 15

Around The World in 80s Days

1min
pages 10-11

Feeling Grand

2min
page 14

Forestry England and the Royal Society of Sculptors Announces the Winner of the Annual 2021 Grizedale Residency

3min
page 19
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.