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===Titherington's Crime<ref>note added by Peter Elliott</ref>===
Dee Hills at Boughton was developed in 1850s when William Titherington, the owner of a 10 acre estate there, broke up his land to build Sandown Terrace, three Italianate houses and Deva Terrace. In 1873 Dee Hill had extensive grounds with pleasure gardens above the river and a tree-lined drive from The Bars, flanked by paddocks to the north and allotment gardens to the south-east. More estate land was being sold for development and in the 1880s Beaconsfield Terrace had been built on the northern part of this land. The drive was now named Dee Hills Park and was lined with larger houses, including the largest: Uffington House, built for Thomas Hughes (the author of "Tom Brown's Schooldays"). By 1892 Dee Hills House and the remaining gardens had been sold to the government and was being used as the residence of the Army’s district commander.
In 1866 Titherington'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.
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[[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 Thomas Ellisons noted book "The Cotton Trade of Great Britain: Including a History of the Liverpool Cotton Market and of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Association" (a standard work dating from 1886) a list of LBCA Presidents also avoids mentioning Titherington. It appears thise involved in the compiling of the list substituted the name of the Vice-President (Thomas Blackburn) instead for the year of Titherington's presidency (1856). Titherington's 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, in what were described in court as '''"extraordinary cotton speculations"'''. He was asked about his actual liabilities he stated that he didn't really know, but '''"thought they were not more than £100,000"'''. The North-Western Bank, who brought about his downfall, was therefore only one of his creditors.
Titherington's story (and the Coat of Arms) is worth further exploration. There are some clear suggestions that he was acting as a broker for cotton speculation during the American Civil War: in 1867 Titherington, Gill & Co. had sued a certain Samuel Price Edwards who said in court that:
* '''"I should think Titherington has been speculating in cotton from the earliest period of his existence as a cotton broker"'''
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