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Surname	Walmsley	Alternative Surname
First Name	John, of Liverpool	Initial of Surname	W
Year of Birth/Baptism	c1765	Flourished
Year of Death	1812
Biographical Details	The son of Isaac Walmsley, a mason of Liverpool, he had a considerable business as a builder and statuary mason, owning his own stone and marble quarries at Toxteth Park, near Liverpool, and at Kilkenny in Ireland. In his Memorials of Liverpool, J A Picton says that he was ‘a man of considerable taste’ and records that in 1798 he designed and built handsome new premises in Berry Street for himself (Picton ii, 1875, 280). He also designed the octagonal Unitarian chapel in Paradise Street, 1791. Only one monument is recorded. Literary References: Colvin 1995, 1019-20