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The family origins are traced to Gawsworth , near Macclesfield , where the first William Rathbone was born in 1669 . It was his son, William Rathbone II , born on 22 May 1696 , who left Gawsworth for the growing port of Liverpool, where he worked as a sawyer and, it appears, established a timber business.


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In 1788, William Rathbone IV leased the family house and estate of Greenbank, then part of the Toxteth Park estate, to serve as a country retreat for his young family, and purchased the freehold of Greenbank House in 1809, the year of his death.