Karl Abrahams, who was born in Liverpool in 1904, was, according to Lawrence, “an amateur historian”.

Lawrence said: “He was the Liverpool Jewish community’s in-house historian.

“He wrote about the history of Liverpool Jews from the earliest days.

“He discovered that Jews settled in Liverpool from the 1730s, 50 years before people thought they did. He wrote sketches of the great and the good, about Jewish cemeteries and hidden shuls and formed a proper Jewish archive, which is housed in Liverpool Central Library Picton Reading Room.”

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