Crosby, Merseyside
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Crosby is a suburban area on Merseyside in North West England. It covers a string of settlements along the Irish Sea coast, between 5 and 7 miles north of Liverpool city centre.
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[edit] Local Government
Crosby was formed as a Municipal Borough in 1937 by the merger of the urban districts of Great Crosby, Little Crosby and Waterloo with Seaforth and is historically part of Lancashire. It became part of the new Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in 1974.
[edit] Parliamentary Representation
Crosby is a Parliamentary Constituency in its own right. The MP for Crosby since 1997 has been Claire Curtis-Thomas, a member of the Labour Party
[edit] Etymology
Crosby means 'place of the cross' in Norse and has viking roots in common with Formby further to the north. It
[edit] Education
There are two popular independent schools in the area, Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby and St Mary's College. There are also several Comprehensive schools, including Chesterfield High School, Holy Family Catholic High School, St. Michael's Church of England High School and Sacred Heart Catholic College (formerly Sacred Heart Catholic High School).
[edit] Places of Interest
The town environs include several miles of beach, a marina, a number of parks and a large area of woodland known as Ince Woods. Crosby is home to the Carnegie Library built with donations from the American steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Distinctive buildings in Crosby Village include Central Buildings, Crown Buildings and the two pubs, Yates's and The Village.
[edit] Sport
The Football Club Marine AFC and Rugby Football Club Waterloo RFC are based in the area.
[edit] Notable residents past and present
- Crosby has been home to some of the main protagonists of the greatest sea distasters of all time, including the RMS Titanic
- Blessed Lawrence Richardson - Catholic Saint and Martyr
- John Butler Yeats - Painter, and father of William Butler Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats
- James Dunwoody Bulloch - Confederate Agent and Spy, visited by his 11-year old nephew Theodore Roosevelt in 1869.
- the children of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States
- Sir Henry Lucy - journalist, first parliamentary lobbyist and contributor to Punch magazine
- Bruce Ismay - Managing Director of White Star Line and creator of RMS Titanic
- Edward J. Smith - Captain of the RMS Titanic
- Arthur Henry Rostron - Captain of the RMS Carpathia, which famously rescued Titanic survivors.
- Thomas Deacon - member of the Tendaguru dinosaur expedition
- Gerald Gardner - occultist and founder of the Wiccan religion
- Sir Adrian Boult - Conductor
- Herbert James Rowse - Architect
- Bartlett Mullins - Veteran TV actor
- Alistair Reid, OBE - Toxicologist and world-authority on snake-bites
- Francis George MacLardy - WW2 traitor and member of the Waffen-SS British Free Corps
- Right Reverend Robert Runcie - 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury
- George Melly - Jazz performer and writer
- His Grace the Most Reverend Vincent Gerard Nichols - Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Birmingham
- Beryl Bainbridge - Writer
- John Birt - Former Director-General of the BBC
- Sir John Kay - Former Judge at Court of Appeal
- Ben Kay MBE - Rugby Union player and 2003 World Cup winner
- Kenny Everett - Comedian
- Cherie Blair - QC and wife of Prime Minister, Tony Blair
- Brian Dooley - Writer
- Lynda La Plante - Screenwriter and actress
- Anne Robinson - Journalist and television presenter
- Jane Tomlinson - Athlete and fundraiser
- Frank Cottrell Boyce - Screeenwriter and novelist
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Titanic Town - Crosby's remarkable seafaring connections
- The Crosby Channel
- The Crosby Herald
- Crosby Cam
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