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William Atkinson Airey (1883-1925)
1926 Obituary [1]
WILLIAM WILKINSON AIREY was born at Whalley, Lancashire, on 19th July 1883, and the education he received at the Grammar School in that town was followed by further studies at the Manchester School of Technology and at Blackburn.
He served his apprenticeship with subsequent workshop experience under Messrs. Ashton, Frost and Co., Ltd., engineers, Blackburn, after which he received an appointment from them in the drawing office, where he spent some years and was responsible for important work in connexion with the designing and erection of various cotton weaving and other mills, for which his firm were the architects and contractors.
Later on he was appointed assistant manager, and this connexion with the same firm he held up to the time of his death, which occurred on 18th February 1925.
He became an Associate Member of this Institution in 1911.