William Rathbone IV [SEP] place of birth
William Rathbone IV
William Rathbone IV (10 June 1757 – 11 February 1809) was a member of the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool, England. He was the son of William Rathbone III and Rachel Rutter, and was a Liverpool ship-owner and merchant, involved in the organisation of American trade with Liverpool.
Originally a member of the Society of Friends, he felt compelled to write the "Narrative of Events in Ireland among the Quakers" in 1786 in protest against religious intolerance in the Society, for which
at 26 Percy Street, Rathbone Place, but he resigned in 1856, aggrieved in consequence of some alleged slight in connection with the placing of his pictures. At his own request, however, he was reinstated in 1859. He was watercolour-painter in ordinary to William IV and Queen Adelaide,he painted a miniature of Queen Victoria from a sitting (1840 NPG) and taught Victoria's son Prince Arthur to paint; he was also professor of drawing at Addiscombe College from 1851 to its dissolution, after which he held