Background
Horsfall was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and was the son of Joseph Horsfall and Anna Hodgson.
bailiff businessmen Lord Mayor
Horsfall was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and was the son of Joseph Horsfall and Anna Hodgson.
Notable amongst them were businessmen and politicians Thomas Berry Horsfall (1805–1878), Robert Horsfall (1807–1881) and George Henry Horsfall (1824–1900). He was Bailiff in 1829 and then Mayor in 1832. His botanical passions were fuelled by his business trade connections with West Africa, the West Indies and the Americas.
He died on 18 June 1846 in Crosby, Sefton, of "senile decline after paralysis".
He is buried in Saint Georges, Everton. In his honour his family, led by Robert Horsfall built Christ Church, Great Homer Street in Everton.
lieutenant was consecrated on 30 October 1848 (Annals of Liverpool, page 1903) by the Bishop of Chester. According to the Liverpool Evening Express, 9th September 1948 the cost of building was borne by the Horsfall family of Liverpool.
Its patronage was vested in Trustees.
The church was destroyed by German bombing in the May blitz of 1941.