Eleanora Atherton was an English philanthropist best known for her work in Manchester, England.
18 Facts About Eleanora Atherton
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Eleanora Atherton's education is an unknown, although it is known that she grew up in an intellectual environment and did not live an ostentatious lifestyle or travel overseas.
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Eleanora Atherton donated to many philanthropic organisations within the Manchester area and beyond.
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Eleanora Atherton carried on her maternal family tradition of church building and restoration.
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Eleanora Atherton resided half the year at the Byrom family home at 23 Quay Street in Manchester and half at the family's country home, Kersal Cell in Salford.
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Eleanora Atherton inherited accumulated wealth from several family members, which included property in London, Cheshire, Lancashire, and Jamaica.
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Between 1819 and 1830, Eleanora Atherton lived at 12 Great James Street in Bloomsbury, a fashionable residential street, in proximity to numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions.
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In real life, Eleanora Atherton was referred to as Madame Byrom; likely a name she promoted herself, in order to accentuate her maternal lineage of which she was so proud, and society courteously followed.
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Eleanora Atherton died on 12 September 1870, in her home in Quay Street where she had been confined for three years.
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Eleanora Atherton was buried in St Paul's Church in Kersal, one of the churches which she had funded in 1851.
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The charities funded by Eleanora Atherton typically reflected her Anglican faith, education, children and the helping of the most vulnerable.
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Eleanora Atherton founded a charity in memory of her sister Lucy Willis in 1860.
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Eleanora Atherton increased wealth as a result of inheritance of the cumulative wealth of her forebears, upon the death of her younger sibling, Lucy Willis, thereby receiving a share in the estate of her brother-in-law, Richard Willis.
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Eleanora Atherton presented a copy of a Renaissance manuscript of the life of Aulus Gellius, by a Florentine scribe named Humbertus W delivered to the merchant Francesco Sassetti in 1470 which subsequently formed part of the Bibliotheca Corviniana, prior to it being stolen by the Ottomans, acquired by her ancestor, John Byron at auction during the 18th century.
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Bolger retired to Bournemouth where she built a house called 'Eleanora Atherton' and lived very comfortably until her death in 1889.
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Eleanora Atherton's two estates in Jamaica, "Green Park Estate" and "Spring Vale Pen", together with some tenements at Prescot, and chambers in Lincoln's Inn, London, used by her father were bequeathed to the Reverends' younger brother, Alexander Atherton Park, who was a barrister like her own father.
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Eleanora Atherton left him her father's law books at the chamber.
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Eleanora Atherton lived in Holcombe Burnell, and became High Sheriff of Devon in 1888.