Salford's Famous Men
Academics and Doctors
John Lancelot Burn
..... died 1973 .....
Medical Officer of Health for Salford and under his guidance Salford became
the FIRST city in Britain to wipe out diptheria, FIRST to register a nil
figure for maternal mortality and the FIRST to tackle tuberculosis by a mass
X-ray of all citizens. He also saw the FIRST smokeless zones introduced into
the city
John Byrom
..... born February 29th 1692 died September 26th 1763 ..... poet and
stenographer born in Broughton. He studied medicine at Montpelier
but returned to England in 1716 to teach a new system of shorthand which he
had invented. In 1740 he succeeded to the family estates at Kersal. He
patented his shorthand system in 1742 and it was published in 1767 as the
Universal English shorthand. The famous hymn " Christians Awake! Salute the
happy morn" was written by him as a birthday present for his daughter
Dorothy and was set to music by John Wainwright. In 1773 his poetry,
Miscellaneous Poems, was published. His niece, Sarah Brearcliffe, was the
founder of Brearcliffe's Charity, by her will dated December 1st 1792, which
bequeathed the sum of £3000 to be applied to the maintenance or relief of
fifteen old housekeepers of good character, inhabitants of Salford or
Manchester, for seven successive years, who did not severally possess an
income of 40s per year, the oldest persons always to be preferred
Henry Clarke
..... born 1743 ..... doctor,
born in Salford. In 1777 he published his famous "Tabulae Linguarum",
a series of grammatical tables covering all languages, classical and
antique. His intimate understanding of the higher branches of mathematics
was combined with an amazing classical knowledge. He died in London a few
months after retiring from his position as Professor of History, geography
and Experimental Philosophy at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Peter Craig .....
Salford born surgeon who led a team at Withington Hospital in pioneering
ways of joining minute blood vessels, tendons, nerves and muscles with the
aid of a special microscope in 1979. He lived in Lullington Road, Irlams
O'Th'Height and went to St Sebastian school and De La Salle College
Joseph Kay
..... born 1821
..... born at Ordsall Cottage he became an economist and was Judge of the
Salford Court of Record for sixteen years
William Morrall Mayo ..... born in Eccles
he moved to America in 1847 and as a prominent physician helped to build St
Mary's Hospital in Minnesota and in 1889, with his two sons, founded a clinic
which grew into the world renowned Mayo Clinic. On Wednesday May 27th 2009 the
Mayo Building was officially opened at Salford Royal Hospital as the hospital's
new education and research centre, part of a £200m redevelopment. At Eccles
Parish Church there is a window dedicated to the Mayo family
William Charles Tuke ..... Blackpool
Tower architect who lived off Eccles Old Road and was a partner in the firm of
Maxwell & Tuke
Thomas Worthington
..... born 1826 ..... in the Crescent, Salford, he was the architect of Manchester's Albert
Memorial. In 1844 he won a Society of Arts Gold Medal for designing a Gothic
chancel and a year later was given his first complete project - to design a
large house in Alderley Edge, Cheshire. He later married the daughter of the
house and lived there himself from 1869 until his death in 1909. He set
himself up in business in Manchester and although his establishment was not
very large he received important commissions and was a pioneer of hospital
design. When Prince Albert died in 1861, Memorial Funds were set up all over
the country and the Mayor of Manchester donated a statue of the Prince. The
following year Worthington was commissioned to design a "suitable receptacle
to contain the statue". His greatest planning achievement however was the
City Police and Sessions Court In Minshull Street, Manchester, in 1868.
Several Unitarian chapels on the outskirts of the city are the work and
Worthington and his partner John G Elgood