Simon Renton writes with reference to the report at https://childlawobserver10.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=4347&action=edit
As regards the Mortlake brewery, there were a number of Irish labourers employed there in the 1860s. The following pages (extracts) of the autobiography of Adolphus Liddell, whose grave and that of his parents Sir Adolphus Liddell and Frederica Lane Fox and of his younger brother is in the Old Mortlake burial ground, reflects some of the concerns of the authorities in the Fenian times. The elder sister of Adolphus, Frederica Lascelles (nee Liddell), was the mother of my grandfather, Sir Alan ‘Tommy’ Lascelles.
See also LIDDELL, Sir Adolphus Frederick Octavius (1818-1885), civil servant. Permanent Under-Secretary at Home Office. Lived at Park Cottage, East Sheen, 1848-68. Buried Mortlake Cemetery with his wife who died 1867. Copied from the Barnes and Mortlake History Society Website at https://barnes-history.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/celHL.pdf



Park Cottage was built in the early 19th century on the borders of Richmond Park and Palewell Common. Despite its name, it was a substantial house. After Liddell Sir Edwin Chadwick lived in the house from 1869 unti his death in 1890. He was a senior civil servant devoted to public health and sanitary reform, and instrumental in the reform of the Poor Laws. The house was demolished in 1932 to make way for the present day Clare Lawn Avenue.
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