page_title: John Fairbairn (educator)
section_title: Recognition
hierarchical_section_title: John Fairbairn (educator) / Death and legacy / Recognition
caption_attribution_description: English: Bust of John Fairbain (educator)
context_page_description: John Fairbairn was a newspaper proprietor, educator, financier and politician of the Cape Colony.
  According to the Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, “The embryo of the State education system we know today, trial by jury, the principle of the mutual life assurance company – all these were fruits of his endeavours at the Cape”.
context_section_description: “Few men could have lived lives as full of worthwhile activity as John Fairbairn did. Few men could have got so little recognition from history”.
  When an English-medium co-educational high school was established in Goodwood, Cape Town in 1977, the School Governing Body decided to name it Fairbairn College.
  Fairbairn Capital is an investment company within the Old Mutual group of companies. It was named after the founder of Old Mutual, John Fairbairn. According to the Fairbairn Capital website, in naming it Fairbairn Capital, “we recognise his contributions, draw on his heritage and laud his values”.
  Old Mutual International is based in Fairbairn House in St Peter Port on the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
  On 24 August 1994, the John Fairbairn boardroom was opened at the South African Chamber of Business parliamentary information centre in Cape Town by SA Chamber of Business director-general Mr Raymond Parsons. The boardroom together with the Rainbow Room was sponsored by Shell SA and Old Mutual and is used for meetings of businessmen and politicians.
caption: Bust in foyer of Fairbairn College
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