Edward Byrom (13 June 1724 – 24 April 1773) was a prominent figure in 18th-century
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
and served for a period as
borough-reeve.
The oldest surviving son of
John Byrom
John Byrom or John Byrom of Kersal or John Byrom of Manchester FRS (29 February 1692 – 26 September 1763) was an English poet, the inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand and later a significant landowner. He is most remembered as t ...
of the wealthy Byrom family, Edward Byrom co-founded the first bank in Manchester and ordered the construction of
St John's Church in 1769. The church, demolished in 1931, was situated on Byrom Street, a street which was named after his family.
He married Eleanora Halstead, who bore him four girls before her death in 1758: Ann Byrom (1751-1826), Elizabeth Byrom (1754-1754), Felicia Byrom (1755-1757) and Eleanora Byrom (1756-1838). His granddaughter was English philanthropist
Eleanora Atherton.
References
1724 births
1773 deaths
English accountants
18th-century English people
History of Manchester
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