Memorials
There are blue plaques at The Towers (today the Shirley Institute), Wilmslow Road in Didsbury, and in Adamson Street, Dukinfield. Also in Dukinfield, St Luke's Church has a stained glass window in his memory. The Adamson Military Band was also named after him.
The Daniel Adamson Coach House has been preserved in Shildon.
A former Manchester Ship Canal Company steam-powered tug-tender, Daniel Adamson (originally named Ralph Brocklebank but renamed in 1936) is being restored by The Daniel Adamson Preservation Society.
Adamson is buried at Southern Cemetery, Manchester in grave space "A-Church of England-40". He was buried three days after his death, on 16 January 1890.
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