West Dingle, the large house on the banks of the Mersey where Elizabeth Thompson was born and grew up.
Elizabeth Thompson, Born 1814
a victorian grandmotheer
Elizabeth Thompson was the eldest of the six daughters of Joseph Brooks Yates and his wife Margaret Taylor. Yates was one of the leading reformers of Liverpool, and a supporter of its literary and scientific institutions. He helped to found the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, of which he was president, and a frequent reader of papers at its meetings. In 1854 he acted as local vice-president of the British Association at the Liverpool meeting. Elizabeth Thompson’s life story was written in 1946 by her grand daughter Margaret Evelyn Arbuthnot. She described her purpose as trying from the study of some early journals kept by Elizabeth to give some record of her girlhood, and show her development as the years went by into the personality which her grand children dearly loved.