Samuel Fletcher (merchant)

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Samuel Fletcher" merchant – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Samuel Fletcher" merchant – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Samuel Fletcher was a solicitor and friend of George Faulkner.^{[citation needed]} He was honorary secretary of the Manchester Association for the Promotion of Fine Arts around 1846.^[1] He is believed to be the man that suggested to Faulkner that John Owens should leave his wealth to fund a university in Manchester.

The sculptor and phrenologist William Bally exhibited a bust of Fletcher in 1834.^[2]

This English law–related biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e