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→Hoole's Coat of ArmsArticle researched and written by Ralph Earlam, October 2018, Hoole History & Heritage Society
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The Society would be interested to learn of the existence of any other examples of its use e.g. as a letterhead, in publications or even on a celebration mug or local medals?
===Titherington's Crime<ref>note added by Peter Elliott</ref>===
In 1866 Titheringtton's name appeared at the head of a list of firms that had been run by Past Presidents of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers Association. On the 1867 and subsequent lists his name vanishes.
[[File:TitheringtonList.jpg|600px|thumb|center| The LCBA removed Titherington from its list of past presidents<ref>Cotton and the Civil War, Jim Powell</ref>.]]
In Ellisons noted book "Cotton Trade" (a standard work) a list of LBCA Presidents also avoids mentioning him. It appears they substituted the name of the Vice-President (Thomas Blackburn) instead for the year of Titherington's presidency (1856). The crime came to light at a time, just after the American Civil War (1861-65) when many Liverpool Cotton Brokers went bankrupt, but Titherington appears to have gone further, and engaged on his private account, but using the funds of others and under the names of co-consprators, on "extrodinary cotton speculations". He was asked about his liabilities and stated that he didn't really know, but "thought they were not more than £100,000". The North-Western Bank was only one of his creditors.
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