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Basil Rathbone wrote about starting his acting career in the Shakespearean company led by his cousin, Sir Frank Benson. This post will take a closer look at the Rathbone family. Just how closely were Basil and Sir Frank related? Not close at all, as it turns out. Basil’s great-great-great-grandfather, William Rathbone III, was also Frank’s great-great-grandfather.
William Rathbone III
The Family Tree diagram below shows that William had two children: William and Sarah. He actually had more children, but we are focusing on William and Sarah because Basil Rathbone is descended from William, and Frank Benson is descended from Sarah.
William Rathbone III, who lived in Liverpool from 1726 to 1789, built his fortune in merchant shipping. The company traded in a variety of products, including timber, salt, iron bars, linen, leather, tobacco, tallow, wheat, rye, and rice. The Rathbones (William and his son William IV, who joined his father in the family business) never became involved in the lucrative slave trade. In fact, the Rathbones were ardent abolitionists. Both father and son were founding members of the Liverpool Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
In 1788, William IV moved his family to Greenbank House, the same house where young Basil visited
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Story of a Life Review Batch (Part 7): Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Agony and the Ecstasy, Big George Foreman, Fear Strikes Out, Flamin’ Hot, Golda, Immortal Beloved, Knute Rockne All American, Lillian Russell, Million Miles Away, Napoleon, Priscilla, Story of Louis Pasteur
Heading toward the end of 2023, which means the majority of review batches on the way out are going to contain at least a couple 2023 releases so I can squeeze in as much as I can before the end of the year and the traditional Year in Review feature on the 31st. I don’t have an accurate reading of how many 2023 movies I’ve reviewed so far (still playing catch up on adding all those reviews and links from the glut I dropped during October’s Thirteen Nights of Terror, and updating the Reviews by Year section will be done after all that). As such, I’m crossing off six movies from this year with this batch focused on biographical stories of varying historical accuracy (typically on the low end). There’s never a shortage of biopics in any given movie year, and if I’d waited any longer, I probably would’ve thrown in the Leonard Bernstein and Enzo Ferrari movies while I was at it (haven’t seen them yet…but soon…). So, enjoy reading these write-u