James Maury (consul)

[3] He was the son of The Reverend James Maury (1719–1769), an educator and Anglican cleric in the American colonies, of Huguenot ancestry.

Among The Reverend Maury's notable pupils were Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the First Bishop of Virginia.

[1] Liverpool was at the time an important centre for Transatlantic commerce and a vital trading partner for the former Thirteen Colonies.

The inscription reads: "Presented by the merchants and other inhabitants of Liverpool to James Maury, Esq., Late Consul of the United States of America in that Town as a mark of general respect on his removal from an Office which he had honourably held for forty years, 1829.

His portrait, painted by Gilbert Stuart Newton, still hangs today in the West Reception Room in Liverpool Town Hall.