William Harper.
From Memorials of Liverpool....second edition, revised, with additions.
At the for lane ends we will turn westward down Rupert Lane. In 1790 the whole of the land on the north side was the property of Mr. William Harper, mayor in 1804. Soon after 1790 he erected the noble mansion which still remains, and laid out the grounds and accessories in a style of princely maginificence. Mr. Harper accumulated a very large fortune, and retired to pass the evening of his days on an estatehe purchased in Cheshire, where he died in 1815. After his removal it passed into the hands of Mr. Charles Shand, who also resided on the spot.
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