William Fairbairn
| Sir William Fairbairn Bart., FRS, LLD &c | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1789 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1874 | ||||||||||||||
| Residence | Manchester | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | business | ||||||||||||||
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proposed 1867.05.14
Late President of the British Association
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Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet (of Ardwick) (19 February 1789 – 18 August 1874) was a Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder.
Sir William Fairbairn, Bart., of Ardwick, Manchester, F.R.S. Hon. LLD. of the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, and of the Royal Academy of Turin, and Knight of the Legion of Honour, was born at Kelso, in Roxburghshire, on the 19th of February 1780.
He died at Moor Park, in Surrey, the residence of his son-in-law, John Frederic Bateman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.Inst.C.E., on the 18th of August, 1874, in his eighty-fifth year.
...From this time [1816] a full account of Sir William Fairbairn’s life would be, to a large extent, identical with a history of more than half a century of progress in mechanical science, in the development of the productive power of Manchester manufactures, in the application of iron to the building of ships, in the adoption of iron walls on land as well as on sea for purposes of military defence, and in a wide range of invention and discovery connected with the strength of materials of construction, and the economy of motive forces.
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1853