Adrian Paul Mignot was the fourth of four children born to Rémy Mignot (1801-1848) and his second wife Théonie Marie Louise Alexandrine (de la) Rivière (1819-1875), daughter of Jean-Pierre (John Peter)(de la) Rivière, a French aristocrat who had escaped the Revolution to the United States, eventually settling in Charleston, South Carolina. His father Rémy Mignot was also born in France and emigrated to Charleston in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars. He owned a fashionable coffee shop and confectionary in the port city. After Rémy Mignot's death, his widow married Adolphus Johannes (Adolph John) Rutjes, a close family friend. Rutjes was Prussian by birth but had a brother and sister living in the Netherlands. The Mignot children, including Adolphus John, were sent to Eindhoven where Rutjes's brother ran a boarding school.
In 1873 Adrian Paul married Joanna M. Bouvy (1838-1913) of Amsterdam. The couple had no children.
A LIVERPOOL CELEBRITY
Impending Departure for Holland
With much regret we announce that within the next few weeks Mr. Adrian Paul Mignot, who has for so long a period been identified with artistic occupations inn the city, will take his departure from Liverpool, where he has a very large circle of friends, and where his qualities as a man and as a musical artist have ever been valued at their high and proper worth. The migration is only the fulfillment of an intention Mr. Mignot has long possessed--indeed, he and Mrs. Mignot long ago promised their relatives in Holland that "some day" they would cross the Channel and take up their abode permanently in the Dutchland, where they have so many interests. Unfortunately, for their English friends, and for those in our own city in particular, that "some day" is at hand, and very shortly the "familiar walks" here will know them no more, except on those occasional visits which they have already promised themselves.
Mr. Mignot has pursued the career of a broker of tobacco in Canning-place for a long period, and has resided in the city for forty years. For him the severance is one that he feels keenly. Mr. Mignot's labours in Liverpool for his day and generation have been, roughly described, confined to two spheres of activity, the first that of music, and the second that of philanthropy. For a period of twelve years he has served upon the committee of the Philharmonic Society, in which capacity his intimate knowledge--he is a particularly skilful and sympathetic executant upon the violoncello--has been of immense advantage. Thirty years ago Mr. Mignot became a member of the Wirral Amateur Orchestral Society, and still figures there as an honoured veteran, at his desk. The Liverpool Orchestral Society once had its day of small things. In those days the nucleus of the present flourishing and popular society were wont to do yeoman service in aid of Father Nugent's Saturday Night Concerts when they were held in the Rotunda Lecture-hall. Among this devoted band of "makers of melody" was Mr. Mignot, and he remained a member of the resultant permanent organisation which flourished for five years under the style and title of the People's Orchestral Society. Developing again, this was swallowed in 1890 in the Liverpool Orchestral Society, of which in 1899 Mr. Mignot became president.
A work of late years--it began in 1889--which has occupied him much and to which he gave a very genuine enthusiasm was that of organising the Schiever Quartette Concerts. This enterprise will miss him sorely, for he has done much to bring it to success. Though by no means touching completeness the foregoing epitomises Mr. Mignot's chief musical labours and enterprises. Coming to his more directly beneficent doings, he has been prominently identified with the Liverpool Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress for a period so lengthy as 35 years. In that capacity Mr. Mignot has done splendid service. One of the hon. managers of the Hightown Truant School, for many years a faithful friend (acting upon the committee since 1891) to the Catholic Female Orphanage, Mr. Mignot has been prodigal of good works, and it only remains to say that when he takes his departure, perhaps at the end of June or early in July, he will carry with him a thousand regrets--"gentle burdens that cause a sigh"--and many hundred hopes for the health and happiness in a new sphere of one who has given of his best and kindliest to a city where he has learned to love the Englishman and all that appertains to England, and where he has for four decades been hailed as a valued benefactor and friend.
[Liverpool Courier (Liverpool, England), March 10, 1907.]
In 1873 Adrian Paul married Joanna M. Bouvy (1838-1913) of Amsterdam. The couple had no children.
A LIVERPOOL CELEBRITY
Impending Departure for Holland
With much regret we announce that within the next few weeks Mr. Adrian Paul Mignot, who has for so long a period been identified with artistic occupations inn the city, will take his departure from Liverpool, where he has a very large circle of friends, and where his qualities as a man and as a musical artist have ever been valued at their high and proper worth. The migration is only the fulfillment of an intention Mr. Mignot has long possessed--indeed, he and Mrs. Mignot long ago promised their relatives in Holland that "some day" they would cross the Channel and take up their abode permanently in the Dutchland, where they have so many interests. Unfortunately, for their English friends, and for those in our own city in particular, that "some day" is at hand, and very shortly the "familiar walks" here will know them no more, except on those occasional visits which they have already promised themselves.
Mr. Mignot has pursued the career of a broker of tobacco in Canning-place for a long period, and has resided in the city for forty years. For him the severance is one that he feels keenly. Mr. Mignot's labours in Liverpool for his day and generation have been, roughly described, confined to two spheres of activity, the first that of music, and the second that of philanthropy. For a period of twelve years he has served upon the committee of the Philharmonic Society, in which capacity his intimate knowledge--he is a particularly skilful and sympathetic executant upon the violoncello--has been of immense advantage. Thirty years ago Mr. Mignot became a member of the Wirral Amateur Orchestral Society, and still figures there as an honoured veteran, at his desk. The Liverpool Orchestral Society once had its day of small things. In those days the nucleus of the present flourishing and popular society were wont to do yeoman service in aid of Father Nugent's Saturday Night Concerts when they were held in the Rotunda Lecture-hall. Among this devoted band of "makers of melody" was Mr. Mignot, and he remained a member of the resultant permanent organisation which flourished for five years under the style and title of the People's Orchestral Society. Developing again, this was swallowed in 1890 in the Liverpool Orchestral Society, of which in 1899 Mr. Mignot became president.
A work of late years--it began in 1889--which has occupied him much and to which he gave a very genuine enthusiasm was that of organising the Schiever Quartette Concerts. This enterprise will miss him sorely, for he has done much to bring it to success. Though by no means touching completeness the foregoing epitomises Mr. Mignot's chief musical labours and enterprises. Coming to his more directly beneficent doings, he has been prominently identified with the Liverpool Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress for a period so lengthy as 35 years. In that capacity Mr. Mignot has done splendid service. One of the hon. managers of the Hightown Truant School, for many years a faithful friend (acting upon the committee since 1891) to the Catholic Female Orphanage, Mr. Mignot has been prodigal of good works, and it only remains to say that when he takes his departure, perhaps at the end of June or early in July, he will carry with him a thousand regrets--"gentle burdens that cause a sigh"--and many hundred hopes for the health and happiness in a new sphere of one who has given of his best and kindliest to a city where he has learned to love the Englishman and all that appertains to England, and where he has for four decades been hailed as a valued benefactor and friend.
[Liverpool Courier (Liverpool, England), March 10, 1907.]
Adrian Paul Mignot was the fourth of four children born to Rémy Mignot (1801-1848) and his second wife Théonie Marie Louise Alexandrine (de la) Rivière (1819-1875), daughter of Jean-Pierre (John Peter)(de la) Rivière, a French aristocrat who had escaped the Revolution to the United States, eventually settling in Charleston, South Carolina. His father Rémy Mignot was also born in France and emigrated to Charleston in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars. He owned a fashionable coffee shop and confectionary in the port city. After Rémy Mignot's death, his widow married Adolphus Johannes (Adolph John) Rutjes, a close family friend. Rutjes was Prussian by birth but had a brother and sister living in the Netherlands. The Mignot children, including Adolphus John, were sent to Eindhoven where Rutjes's brother ran a boarding school.
In 1873 Adrian Paul married Joanna M. Bouvy (1838-1913) of Amsterdam. The couple had no children.
A LIVERPOOL CELEBRITY
Impending Departure for Holland
With much regret we announce that within the next few weeks Mr. Adrian Paul Mignot, who has for so long a period been identified with artistic occupations inn the city, will take his departure from Liverpool, where he has a very large circle of friends, and where his qualities as a man and as a musical artist have ever been valued at their high and proper worth. The migration is only the fulfillment of an intention Mr. Mignot has long possessed--indeed, he and Mrs. Mignot long ago promised their relatives in Holland that "some day" they would cross the Channel and take up their abode permanently in the Dutchland, where they have so many interests. Unfortunately, for their English friends, and for those in our own city in particular, that "some day" is at hand, and very shortly the "familiar walks" here will know them no more, except on those occasional visits which they have already promised themselves.
Mr. Mignot has pursued the career of a broker of tobacco in Canning-place for a long period, and has resided in the city for forty years. For him the severance is one that he feels keenly. Mr. Mignot's labours in Liverpool for his day and generation have been, roughly described, confined to two spheres of activity, the first that of music, and the second that of philanthropy. For a period of twelve years he has served upon the committee of the Philharmonic Society, in which capacity his intimate knowledge--he is a particularly skilful and sympathetic executant upon the violoncello--has been of immense advantage. Thirty years ago Mr. Mignot became a member of the Wirral Amateur Orchestral Society, and still figures there as an honoured veteran, at his desk. The Liverpool Orchestral Society once had its day of small things. In those days the nucleus of the present flourishing and popular society were wont to do yeoman service in aid of Father Nugent's Saturday Night Concerts when they were held in the Rotunda Lecture-hall. Among this devoted band of "makers of melody" was Mr. Mignot, and he remained a member of the resultant permanent organisation which flourished for five years under the style and title of the People's Orchestral Society. Developing again, this was swallowed in 1890 in the Liverpool Orchestral Society, of which in 1899 Mr. Mignot became president.
A work of late years--it began in 1889--which has occupied him much and to which he gave a very genuine enthusiasm was that of organising the Schiever Quartette Concerts. This enterprise will miss him sorely, for he has done much to bring it to success. Though by no means touching completeness the foregoing epitomises Mr. Mignot's chief musical labours and enterprises. Coming to his more directly beneficent doings, he has been prominently identified with the Liverpool Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress for a period so lengthy as 35 years. In that capacity Mr. Mignot has done splendid service. One of the hon. managers of the Hightown Truant School, for many years a faithful friend (acting upon the committee since 1891) to the Catholic Female Orphanage, Mr. Mignot has been prodigal of good works, and it only remains to say that when he takes his departure, perhaps at the end of June or early in July, he will carry with him a thousand regrets--"gentle burdens that cause a sigh"--and many hundred hopes for the health and happiness in a new sphere of one who has given of his best and kindliest to a city where he has learned to love the Englishman and all that appertains to England, and where he has for four decades been hailed as a valued benefactor and friend.
[Liverpool Courier (Liverpool, England), March 10, 1907.]
In 1873 Adrian Paul married Joanna M. Bouvy (1838-1913) of Amsterdam. The couple had no children.
A LIVERPOOL CELEBRITY
Impending Departure for Holland
With much regret we announce that within the next few weeks Mr. Adrian Paul Mignot, who has for so long a period been identified with artistic occupations inn the city, will take his departure from Liverpool, where he has a very large circle of friends, and where his qualities as a man and as a musical artist have ever been valued at their high and proper worth. The migration is only the fulfillment of an intention Mr. Mignot has long possessed--indeed, he and Mrs. Mignot long ago promised their relatives in Holland that "some day" they would cross the Channel and take up their abode permanently in the Dutchland, where they have so many interests. Unfortunately, for their English friends, and for those in our own city in particular, that "some day" is at hand, and very shortly the "familiar walks" here will know them no more, except on those occasional visits which they have already promised themselves.
Mr. Mignot has pursued the career of a broker of tobacco in Canning-place for a long period, and has resided in the city for forty years. For him the severance is one that he feels keenly. Mr. Mignot's labours in Liverpool for his day and generation have been, roughly described, confined to two spheres of activity, the first that of music, and the second that of philanthropy. For a period of twelve years he has served upon the committee of the Philharmonic Society, in which capacity his intimate knowledge--he is a particularly skilful and sympathetic executant upon the violoncello--has been of immense advantage. Thirty years ago Mr. Mignot became a member of the Wirral Amateur Orchestral Society, and still figures there as an honoured veteran, at his desk. The Liverpool Orchestral Society once had its day of small things. In those days the nucleus of the present flourishing and popular society were wont to do yeoman service in aid of Father Nugent's Saturday Night Concerts when they were held in the Rotunda Lecture-hall. Among this devoted band of "makers of melody" was Mr. Mignot, and he remained a member of the resultant permanent organisation which flourished for five years under the style and title of the People's Orchestral Society. Developing again, this was swallowed in 1890 in the Liverpool Orchestral Society, of which in 1899 Mr. Mignot became president.
A work of late years--it began in 1889--which has occupied him much and to which he gave a very genuine enthusiasm was that of organising the Schiever Quartette Concerts. This enterprise will miss him sorely, for he has done much to bring it to success. Though by no means touching completeness the foregoing epitomises Mr. Mignot's chief musical labours and enterprises. Coming to his more directly beneficent doings, he has been prominently identified with the Liverpool Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress for a period so lengthy as 35 years. In that capacity Mr. Mignot has done splendid service. One of the hon. managers of the Hightown Truant School, for many years a faithful friend (acting upon the committee since 1891) to the Catholic Female Orphanage, Mr. Mignot has been prodigal of good works, and it only remains to say that when he takes his departure, perhaps at the end of June or early in July, he will carry with him a thousand regrets--"gentle burdens that cause a sigh"--and many hundred hopes for the health and happiness in a new sphere of one who has given of his best and kindliest to a city where he has learned to love the Englishman and all that appertains to England, and where he has for four decades been hailed as a valued benefactor and friend.
[Liverpool Courier (Liverpool, England), March 10, 1907.]
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