Frederick Dwelly


Frederick William Dwelly was the first Dean of Liverpool.

Dwelly was born in Chard, Somerset, the youngest of the ten children of Robert Dwelly, a carriage builder, and his wife, Caroline, ne Cooper. Robert Dwelly was a local Councillor, and like his wife, a dedicated member of the Church of England. The young Dwelly was educated at the local grammar school, known as Chard Endowed School. In his later years at the school he frequently played truant, absenting himself to listen to music. The headmaster was indulgent, but when these truancies came to the notice of Robert Dwelly, Frederick was removed from the school and sent in 1898 to live in London. He is thought to have stayed with his elder brother Herbert and sisterinlaw Florence. and according to his eventual successor as Dean of Liverpool, Frederick Dillistone, he worked as a salesman in a large department store near Oxford Circus. Dwellys biographer Peter Kennerley identifies the store as Marshall amp Snelgrove, which was a short distance from All Souls Church, Langham Place, where Dwel

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