William Rathbone

(1787-1868)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Rathbone, William, 1787-1868 NRA: Rathbone, William (1787-1868) Philanthropist DNB: Rathbone, William (1787–1868) LBT ID: WiRathb1868 VIAF ID: 73820841 LOC ID: nr2007007524	B/BAP: 1787-06-17 DIED: 1868-02-01
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The son of William Rathbone (d. 1809); educated under William Belsham at Hackney, he was a Liverpool merchant and advocate of Roman Catholic emancipation.
CORRESPONDENCE OF William Rathbone: William Roscoe to William Rathbone the younger, [September? 1816] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) William Rathbone to William Roscoe, 29 August, 1817 in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833)