Memorial To Fairburn Family To West Of Church Of St Mary (12 Metres South South West Of Memorial To John Brooks

SD 8103 CHURCH LANE (west side) 326-/1/10013

Memorial to Fairbairn family - to west of Church of St Mary (12m SSW of memorial to John Brooks, qv)

GV II

Tomb chest, either c.1859-60 or c.1874-5. Commemorates Peter, son of William Fairbairn (d.1859); John, eldest son of William Fairbairn (d.1867); George, 4th son of William Fairbairn (d.1868); Sir William Fairbairn, L.L.D., First baronet of Ardwick (d.1874) and Dame Dorothy Fairbairn his wife (d.1882). Polished grey granite on sandstone base. Broad rectangular base (with remains of feet of former cast-iron railings), plain sandstone plinth, and shallow chest of elegant design with deep cavetto sides and shallow hipped upper surface. the north slope of this bears the inscriptions to the sons, and the south side to Sir William and Dame Dorothy Fairbairn. History: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874), the eminent engineer, born at Kelso, the son of a farm servant, began his engineering experience at coal mining sites in the north-east of England, came to Manchester and formed partnership with James Lillie in 1817 making machinery for cotton mills, member of Institute of Civil Engineers 1830, subsequently one of the pre-eminent bridge-building and engineering consultants of the mid-C19. [Dictionary of National Biography (1900) vol. 18, pp124-5].

Listing NGR: SD8103803655