In 1793 William Roscoe began work on reclaiming the smaller Trafford Moss, now part of Trafford Park.
He was the younger brother of poet William Caldwell Roscoe and the grandson of English historian and writer William Roscoe.
This was formerly the site of an inn and a bowling green, which was the birthplace of the businessman and amateur scientist William Roscoe.
The niches contain the statues of William Roscoe by Chantrey, Sir William Brown by Patrick MacDowell, Robert Peel by Matthew Noble, George Stephenson by John Gibson, Hugh Boyd M‘Neile by George Gamon Adams, Edward Whitley by A. Bruce Joy, S.
It incorporates an earlier walled botanic garden, founded by William Roscoe as Liverpool Botanic Garden and relocated from land near Mount Pleasant in the 1830s.
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As a translator, Spielhagen rendered into German George William Curtis's Howadji, Ralph Waldo Emerson's English Traits, a selection of American poems (1859; 2d ed. 1865), and William Roscoe's Lorenzo de' Medici.