Edwin Alfred Steinthal

• Birth date            7 May 1859 at Fallowfield, Manchester
• Married                24 May 1893 to Edith Augusta. Rowlandson, at Brighton
• Death date          Sunday 22 January 1928 at Bramhall,
• Cremation           Manchester Crematorium at noon on 24 January 1928

Edwin Alfred Steinhall was the third son of the Manchester cotton merchant Henry Michael Steinthal, and his wife Wilhelmine Pauline Steinthal.  Manchester-born, H M Steinthal had been a member of the Unitarian Cross Street Chapel when William Gaskell, the husband of the novelist Elizabeth Gaskelll, was the Minister. [The Making of Manchester Jewry Page 386]. The Reverend Samuel Alfred Steinthal (1826-1910 and believed to be his uncle) was minister at Cross Street Chapel between 1871 and 1893.

Edwin Alfred Steinthal was educated at Clifton, Owens College, Stuttgart and London, and took up the profession of architect, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1906 He was briefly in partnership with Frank Walter Mee and later a partner in the firm of Salomons and Steinthal, but during his later years he worked alone. He was well-known in Manchester as the designer with Salomons of the Manchester Crematorium, though he specialised in the interiors of private houses, in which subject he was considered to have a very refined taste.

Edwin married Edith Augusta Rowlandson, daughter of Rev Michael Edward Rowlandson and Jessie Louisa Murray, on 24 May 1893 in Brighton. (She was baptised on 25 January 1865 in Stogursey Somerset and died on 7 February 1941 in Exmouth Devon). She was an artist, illustrator and the author of “New Rhymes for Nursery Times,” published about 1899. Census records indicate that they had four children, Margaret (born 1894), Phyllis (born 1896), Geoffrey (born 1897 and killed at the Battle of Jutland) and Leonard (born 1898). His eldest son, Geoffrey Rowlandson Steinthal, a lieutenant in the Royal Marine Light Infantry died aboard H.M.S. "Black Prince." at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916. aged 19 and is commemorated on Chatham Naval Memorial

 Alfred Steinthal died, aged 68, at “Wyncote,” Bramhall on Sunday 22 January 1928 and was cremated at Manchester Crematorium.

Obituary        Builder Vol 134. 9 March 1928 Page 406
Obituary        Manchester City News 28 January 1928 Page
Obituary        Manchester Guardian Tuesday 24th January 1928 Page 14. Col 6

Address
1909            Prudential Buildings 78 King Street Manchester
1914 -         King Street Manchester

Residence
1881        “The Hollies,” Oak Drive, Rusholme (Census)
1896        “Ingleside,” St John’s Road, Knutsford
1902        “Ingleside,” St John’s Road, Knutsford
1914        “Green Bank,” Langham Road, Bowdon (Slater Altrincham & Bowdon) -  between Heald Road and Richmond Road
1916        “Wyncote,” Bramhall Cheshire (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
1928        “Wyncote” Bramhall Cheshire