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Built by the Quilliam Family, four generations lived in this house from the 1870s to the 1950s. Includes some biographical...
8 Brougham Terrace was the site of Britain's first attested mosque community, called the Liverpool Muslim Institute (LMI). It was...
This entry includes information about the personal life of Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932) and in particular about the two families in...
The Medina Home for Children was the first orphanage founded by Muslims in the UK, and was established in 1896....
Fatima Elizabeth Cates (5 January 1865-29 October 1900) was probably the first woman to convert to Islam in Merseyside, who...
This was the residence of Fatima Elizabeth Cates (1865-1900), as listed in the 1891 Census, among the first women to...
This was the site of the first Muslim prayer hall in the UK, which was formally established as the Liverpool...
Fatima Elizabeth Cates (1865-1900) lived at "Granada", Victoria Road, in the town of West Kirby on the western side of...
The first location of the printing offices of the first Muslim periodical published in Britain, the weekly Crescent (1893-1908), the...
The Magistrates Courts (formerly known as the Police Courts) where the Muslim convert and solicitor William Henry Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932)...
The chambers of Quilliam and Sons, headed by a convert to Islam, the lawyer and journalist, William Henry Abdullah Quilliam...
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Mustapha Karsa (pictured circa 1900) was born in Damascus in around 1848 to a wealthy landowning family. In 1880-1, Karsa...
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Robert Stanley led the project to build the Victoria Market Hall, just three years after he had been elected as...
After getting married to Emma Meredith at the age of 19, Robert set up a grocers and tea shop with...
Stalybridge Town Hall was built in 1831. It saw two additional extensions during the Victorian period and was one of...
Shortly after stepping down as Mayor of Stalybridge, Robert, Emma, and some of his grown up children moved to the...
The Cambridge Central Mosque is the first purpose-built eco-mosque in Europe, completed at a cost of £24 million in March...
Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) was the ruler of Mysore, an independent state in southern India. With his father, he was...
Yahya Parkinson (1874-1918), Scottish Muslim poet, essayist, and critic, was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, of Irish descent. Born John...
104 Main Street in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, was the birthplace and primary residence of John Parkinson (1874-1814), Britain's founding Muslim poet....
Halimo Abdi Betal (1878-1904) is probably the first Muslim to have been buried in Bradford; she died at the young...
In 1904, the great Bradford Exhibition was held in Lister Park. It was held to inaugurate the newly-built Cartwright Hall,...
In late April 1895, a group of sixty-six Somalis arrived at the Tilbury Docks aboard the Clan Ross. They came...
1895
Liverpool Magistrates Court or Police Court
The Magistrates Courts (formerly known as the Police Courts) where the Muslim convert and solicitor William Henry Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932) defended many of his cases on a weekly basis. (The Offices of Quilliam & Son nearby in Manchester Street no longer survive, see separate entry on Quilliam and Sons). Built in 1859, the Grade II listed building was used actively as a magistrate's court until 2015, but now stands disused.
As Ron Geaves writes, Quilliam took a number of high profile murder cases. He defended Dr Tomanzes, the black doctor tried at the Chester Assizes and won the case. He lost the defence of Bhagwan Jassawari, a Hindu sailor who murdered a captain and his wife at sea, but he successfully manage to argued for the commutation of the death sentence for life with penal servitude. He used his legal practice to argue against the death penalty and said that he only ever lost one man to the hangman. HIs most famous case was that of the dynamitards, Burton and Cunningham, tried at the Old Bailey for being involved in a conspiracy to cause simultaneous bomb explosions throughout England and Scotland in 1895. The two men supported the Irish independence cause and the case created national panic. Before they were caught, the country had been put on alert. Quilliam was approached late one night by a large American man who asked him to defend the two men, and when Quilliam stated his fee gave him cash on the spot. During the high profile trial in London, Quillam was guarded night and day by both Fenians and Government officials. One night on his way to Euston Station, Quilliam and his Fenian bodyguard were arrested on suspicion of terrorism. His small black legal case had aroused the suspicion of the police. Taken to Bridewell Police Station, a huge mob gathered outside and called for the two men to be lynched from a lamppost. Quilliam was held for nearly six hours before being released when a detective inspector recognised him as the defending lawyer in the dynamitards case. Abdurahman Abouhawas also provides a detailed account of Quilliam's legal cases that he undertook in his first decade or so as a lawyer after he was articled in 1878, see below for references to a couple of online articles.
It was also at this court in December 1891 that Fatima Cates with her sister Clara reported the assault upon her by her husband Hubert Henry Cates (see entry on 2 Marmaduke Street to read more).
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A. Abouhawas, “The Extraordinary Life of Abdullah Quilliam: Part 1, 1856‒1885”, Muslim Vibe, 14 Sep 2019, https://themuslimvibe.com/faith-islam/in-history/the-life-of-abdullah-quilliam-one-of-britains-most-famous-converts-to-islam.
A. Abouhawas, “The Extraordinary Life of Abdullah Quilliam: Part 2, 1885‒1889”, Muslim Vibe, 15 Oct 2019, https://themuslimvibe.com/faith-islam/in-history/the-extraordinary-life-of-abdullah-quilliam-part-2-1885-1889.
R. Geaves, Islam in Victorian Liverpool (Markfield: Kube, 2010).
H. Mahmood and Y. Birt, Our Fatima of Liverpool (Oldham: Beacon Books, 2023).
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