Royal Manchester Institution

In the basement a laboratory was installed by Lyon Playfair who worked there briefly as Professor of Chemistry after he left Thomson's of Clitheroe.

[2] He was succeeded by Frederick Crace Calvert who made phenol which was used by Joseph Lister as an antiseptic.

[4] In the 1880s it moved to premises in Cavendish Street, Chorlton on Medlock, which it still occupies as part of the Manchester Metropolitan University.

The resources of the school included well equipped studios and workrooms, a museum of applied art and a library.

[6] Among the vice-presidents of the Institution was Joseph Jordan, a pioneer in provincial medical education, who served in that role in 1857.