Samuel Fletcher (merchant)

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Samuel Fletcher was a solicitor and friend of George Faulkner.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}} He was honorary secretary of the Manchester Association for the Promotion of Fine Arts around 1846.{{cite news |newspaper=The Manchester Guardian |date=23 May 1846 |page=9 |title=Manchester Association for the Promotion of Fine Arts}} 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.{{cite news |newspaper=The Manchester Guardian |title=The Exhibition - Fourth Notice |page=3 |date=8 October 1834}}