George Livermore Shorland
1872 Patent application by George Livermore Shorland, of the firm of Shillito and Shorland, Manufacturing Ironmongers, of Stretford-road, Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, in respect of the invention of " improvements in grate-backs for increasing the efficiency of sham-register and other fire-grates."[1]
1875 Patent application by George Livermore Shorland, of the firm of Shillito and Shorland, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, Ironmongers, in respect of the invention of "improvements in and in connection with fireplaces, fire-grates, and stoves employed in the warming of rooms and buildings."[2]
1876 Provisional patent to George Livermore Shorland, of the firm of Shillito and Shorland, of Stretford-road, Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, for the invention of " improvements in appliances for warming and ventilating, and in arrangements for assisting in the conveyance and distribution of sounds."[3]
1877 Patent application by George Livermore Shorland, of the firm of Shillito and Shorland, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, Ironmongers, for the invention of "an improvement in ventilators or ventilating cowls."[4]