Abercromby Square

It is named after General Sir Ralph Abercromby, commander of the British Army in Egypt, who died of his wounds following the Battle of Alexandria in 1801.

[citation needed] In 1800 John Foster Sr, Liverpool's corporate surveyor, drew up plans for a heath known as Mosslake Fields which would create a grid of buildings between Falkner Street and Brownlow Hill with a square at their centre.

This led to the creation of a branch of the Southern Independence Association and the home of Charles K. Prioleau at 19 Abercromby Square regarded as an 'unofficial embassy' of the Confederacy.

[3] After the end of the American Civil War, former Confederate president Jefferson Davis visited Liverpool three times seeking employment, sometimes staying in Abercromby Square.

[6] When William Lever, the founder of Port Sunlight, died in 1925 he left a sum of money to the university to refurbish and extend the School of Architecture on the northern terrace of the square.