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Steve Fairbairn was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 25th August 1862. He followed his brothers to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read law, graduating in 1884. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1886 but did not practice. In 1884 he returned to Australia, where he worked at the family's farming interests in Victoria and western Queensland.

On 18th November 1891 he married Ellen Sharwood. They had two sons.

In 1904 they returned to England and thereafter Fairbairn devoted himself to coaching various rowing clubs, both in London and in Cambridge.

Fairbairn rowed in the losing Cambridge crews of 1882 and 1883 and in the victorious crews of 1886 and 1887, and won many other races. However, his claim to fame rests on his methods of coaching and the success of the crews that he coached. He was always ready to try new ideas in coaching or equipment and he did much to make rowing popular. In 1925 he instituted the ‘head of the river’ race on the Putney to Mortlake course: a bronze bust of Fairbairn, by George Drinkwater, is held each year by the winning crew as the trophy. He coached many successful crews of the London Rowing Club, the Thames Rowing Club, and Jesus College.

He died at his home, the Mostyn Hotel, Portman Square, London, on 16th May 1938. His ashes are buried at Jesus College.

He is remembered in Cambridge by the Fairbairn cup races, which he inaugurated in the late 1920s as a handicap race between Jesus crews to serve as a form guide towards the end of Michaelmas term. The event later expanded to include other colleges and, in 1976, a women's event

Frederick Leach started F. R. Leach & Sons, artist-decorators who worked with the best-known Victorian architects/designers including William Morris, Charles Kempe and George Bodley, in 1862. In that year, at the age of 25, with the help of loans from his brothers, Barnett and John, and his close friend from the Church of England Young Mens’ Society and East Road Sunday School, Patrick Seekins, Frederick purchased numbers 35-37 City Road for £300. 36 City Road had been a public house – The Flower Pot – and Frederick converted the three separate buildings into new living accommodation and built wooden workshops in the yard behind the former pub. There was a paint shop, a stained glass works and a gas-fired kiln as well as a metal and wrought iron workshop. Wall and ceiling decoration by the firm at All Saints', Jesus Lane (1864-1879). Ceiling decoration of Jesus College Chapel by Frederick Leach for George Bodley under direction of William Morris (1866-1869). Walls and ceilings of St Michael's, Trinity Street painted free of charge by Frederick Leach, and reredos painted to a design by George Gilbert Scott (1872-1874). Frederick Leach painted chancel, roof, and organ loft of St Botolph's, Trumpington Street (1872) to Bodley designs. Frederick Leach charged £345 18s 2d for the painting of the roof and walls of the Queens' College Old Hall and Chapel (1875). In the 1871 census he is described as a ‘Church Ornament and Glass Painting master employing 12 men and 2 boys’, and in the 1881 census as ‘Painter: Designer and Art Worker employing 28 men, 2 women and 6 boys on painted decorations, stained glass and making furniture’. Between 1871 and 1881, as the census shows, F R Leach & Sons more than doubled its workforce to meet growing demand for their intricately detailed and high quality interiors. In the 1880s, at the height of its success, the firm worked on the staircase of St James's Palace, London with William Morris and opened an office in Great Ormond Street. Coloured decoration of the chancel roof of St Edward King and Martyr, St Edward's Passage done by Frederick Leach (1895). The firm cleaned and redecorated St. Botolph Parish Church c. 1902. Founder Frederick Leach died in 1904. The firm redecorated the Guildhall "in the Italian style" in 1916. Three of Frederick’s sons - Barnett, Frederick and Walter - continued the family business as artist-craftsmen, but financial difficulties during the First World War led to the company being placed into liquidation in that same year.

Plan for existing house at Over Church Farm (1956). Building byelaw plan and approval for 3 bungalows at Westmoor Farm South, Chatteris for the Small Holdings Committee, Shire Hall, Cambridge (1973).

Last dated receipt 1927.

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Eric Alfred Lyons CBE was a British designer and architect. He achieved critical recognition in his development of family and technology-embracing housing communities in England in the latter part of the 20th century. His partnership in Span Developments led to the building of over 73 estates, some of which have achieved Conservation area status in recognition of the close communities created with substantial garden areas, glass and light, façade angles used for privacy and decoration and separate garages as a practical Bauhaus for car-based culture and high point of Modern Architecture widely described a "successful, experimental modernism"