He was educated at Liverpool Collegiate and then joined the family business.
The foundation stone was laid in 1840 and the Liverpool Collegiate Institution was opened by William Gladstone on 6 January 1843, originally as a fee-paying school for boys of middle-class parents and administered as three distinct organisations under a single headmaster.
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He was educated at Liverpool Collegiate and at a Pestalozzian school in Worksop.