Managers, board members, etc (second file)

The arrangement is alphabetical (surnames beginning):

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Allan, Henry
Served on LMS Local Committee in Scotland: former chairman Caledonian Railway. Mullay's London's Scottish railways ..

Austin, William
Deputy Chairman of Rhymney Railway since 1880: Chairman from 1899: see Rly Mag., 1899, 4, 96..

Bain, Andrew
Glasgow steel merchant. Joined Board of Great North of Scotland Railway in 1899 and became chairman in 1919 (until 1922). Vallance

Baird family
Scottish ironmasters. Business founded by Alexander Baird who moved from farming in the Monklands area of Lanarkshire to coal mining to iron smelting (performed at Gartsherrie from 1828). Alexander Baird had eight sons and two daughters; he died at High Cross farm, in 1833.. Eldest son William became MP for Falkirk Burghs, director of the Forth & Clyde Canal and chairman of Caledonian Railway (joined board in 1852) see Vamplew in Reed In 1852, the company was the first to introduce the cylindrical furnace in Scotland and experimented with blast heaters, raising the heat to 800°F. Gartsherrie Ironworks gained a reputation for technical sophistication and attracted visitors from England, Europe and America. The Bairds provided schools, churches and recreational institutes for their work force but opposed trade unionism. The Baird brothers also had considerable interests in banking and held 29 railway company directorships and 5 chairmanships. Later in century a further William Baird became chairman of the NBR..

Baldwin, Alfred
Born 4 June 1841. Educated Wesleyan Collegiate Institution, Taunton. Joined family firm of Baldwin & Sons of Stourport which grew from a local business to become an industrial giant with tine plate works in South Wales. Became a director of the Great Western Railway and Chirman in 1905, but died from a hear attack at his London home following a Board meeting on 13 February 1908. ODNB Trevor Boyns.

Ballantyne, John
Divisional General Superintendent LMS Scotland. Had started as a clerk at Beattock and rose to be Goods Manager of the Caledonian Railway. Mullay's London's Scottish railways .

Benson, Robert
1814-1875: merchant banker; Board member LNWR. . Braine: The railway Moon.

Bickersteth, John Pares
Born in Liverpool in 1827. Elected to LNWR Board in 1867. Chairman of Locomotive Committee, but according to Braine appeared to have little influence upon either Webb or what went on at Crewe, Subsequently director of London, Brighton & South Coast Railway. Extremely wealthy. Braine: The railway Moon..

Birt, William
Born 19 May 1834; died 18 April 1911. Educted Mercers School. Joined Eastern Counties Railway in 1848. Became Goods Manager in 1866 and Genreral Manager of GER on 1 January 1881. He received a Knighthood in 1897 and retired on 17 May 1897, He was Hon. Colonel of the Engineer and Railway Staff Volunteer Corps; Director, Great Eastern Railway, formerly General Manager; Deputy Chairman of the Metropolitan Railway. Who's Who and Rly Mag., 1899, 4, 574..

Boyle, John
Chairman of Rhymney Railway since 1858: retired in 1899 when aged 78: see Rly Mag., 1899, 4, 96..

Byrom, Charles Reginald
Born 7 November 1878; son of Rev. J.W. Unwin BA; name changed to Byrom by Deed Poll 1907 died 26 February 1952. Educated Shrewsbury School. Joined  LNWR in 1896; passed through sections in the Traffic Operating Department; Assistant Superintendent of the Line of LNWR, 1918; on amalgamation of Railways in 1923 appointed General Superintendent (Passenger Commercial) of LMS; Assistant Chief General Superintendent 1924; Chief General Superintendent 1927; Chief Operating Manager, 1932–38 CVO 1938; OBE 1918; Lt-Col (retd) Engineer and Rly Staff Corps (RE) (TA). Mainly Who Was Who. Mentioned many times by Jenkins in his biography of Lemon..

Caird, Patrick
Chairman of Glasgow & South Western Railway: member of a Greenock shipbuilding family taken over by Harland and Woolf. for which see McConnell and Rankin

Campbell, Frederick Archibald Vaughan
Third Earl Cawdor; until he inherited the earldom he was known as Viscount Emlyn.: born on 13 February 1847 at Windsor. Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He sat in parliament as Conservative MP for Carmarthenshire from 1874 to 1885. In 1890 Emlyn became a director of the Great Western Railway and a year later deputy chairman. From July 1895 to March 1905 he was chairman, and in this role presided over a significant period of growth and restructuring in the company's activities. The radical change from broad to standard gauge, undertaken by his predecessor, F.G. Saunders, made possible the numerous reforming measures introduced during his tenure of office, measures whose aim was to maximize growth as well as efficiency; most significant was the laying of new lines, including a direct route to south Wales in 1903. The improvements destroyed the legend of the GWR as the ‘Great Way Round’. Cawdor's success as chairman of the GWR owed less to any extensive experience of the railway business than to innate management qualities. He was quick to spot a good idea, and imaginative and determined in pursuing its implementation. He was a persuasive advocate and a good manager of people. In 1903 Joseph Chamberlain referred to his reputation as ‘the best chairman now living’. Such qualities had helped the GWR to become increasingly competitive and profitable by 1905. They had also led Cawdor to be considered for the post of war minister in the Conservative government of A.J. Balfour in 1903. In the event he was not called on, but in March 1905 he was offered and accepted the post of first lord of the Admiralty in succession to Lord Selborne. Cawdor died in London on 8 February 1911 of pneumonia following a short illness, and buried in Stackpole church, Pembrokeshire. Rhodri Williams ODNB entry.

Cawkell, William
Joined Manchester & Leeds Railway at Brighouse as station clerk in 1840. By 1849 he was the goods manager of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway and by 1853 he was in effect general manager. Joined the LNWR as general manager in 1858 in succession to Huish. He retired in 1871. Eventually elected to Board and became deputy chairman in 1881 until his death in 1897. Braine: The railway Moon.

Chaplin, William James
Born in Rochester in 1787 and major coach proprietor and by 1836 had over ninety coaches in service earning £500,000, but astutely saw the impending railway threat to his business and invested in the London & Southampton Railway. By 1840 he was Vice Chairman of the London and South-Western Railway, and Chairman from 1843-58, with a one year gap. The man, who, by his influence and financial backing, made the original London and Southampton Railway a great success when it was heading for failure, catastrophically, before any trains had commenced to run. After this initial success, piloted the gradual extension of the South-Western into the West of England; and by these extensions, on the standard gauge, virtually checked and stifled the advance of Brunel's broad gauge. The final stage of the expansion, which connected the eastern group of lines with those owned by the LSWR in Devonshire the Salisbury-Exeter section was not completed until after his death in London on 24 April 1859. Chaplin was also a director of the Paris and Rouen, Rouen and Havre, and Rhenish railways, and was involved in a cross-channel steamship company, which were together intended to form part of a direct link between London and the continent. He was MP for Salisbury from 1847 until 1857.  ODNB biography by Dorian Gerhold. Nock, O.S. Railway enthusuast's encyclopedia

Charles, A.L.
Secretary of Midland Railway from 1899. Left Derby Grammar School in 1865 and joined Midland Railway as junior clerk in the accounts department. Flann. Backtrack, 2010, 24, 646.

Cockburn, Charles E.
Superintendent of the Line Glasgow & South Western Railway from January 1895 to 26 July 1921; formerly with LCDR (joined in 1878). He held several positions on that line and became fluent in French and German. According to Dawn Smith his father was Superintendent of the Line on the LCDR. See Rly Mag., 1899, 4, 22-8 for his involvement in resigalling St. Enoch Station.

Cockshott, Francis P.
Superintendent of the Line, Great Northern Railway, 1865-95. In his 30 years of office, made the G.N.R. the fastest line in the world. He held the belief that speed brought traffic; and in competition with the Midland to Leeds, and in partnership with the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, between King's Cross and Manchester, established highly competitive services. His greatest success was during the summer of 1888, during the first Race to the North, between the 10 a.m. departures for Edinburgh from King's Cross and Euston, when he kept the East Coast service consistently faster than the rivals.
Nock, O.S. Railway enthusuast's encyclopedia

Creed, Richard
Former army agent who seved as the London Secretary for the London & Birmingham Railway from its inception until Sepetember 1848. He was subsequently a director. Reed and J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2003, 34, 210.

Cusack, Sir Ralph Smith
Born in Dublin in November 1822; died 3 March 1910. Educated Trinity College, Dublin. Irish Barrister, 1845; Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper, 1858–81. Chairman Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, 1865–1905. Knighted when MGWR opened its Spencer Dock. Who Was Who.

Dix, J.R.
General manager Corris Railway (Rly Mag., 1899, 4, 544 when had been in post for more than twenty years and had seen 34 years of railway service including some on Cambrian Railways)

Duffus, Alexander
Aberdeen lawyer. Member of LNER Scottish Area Local Committee; former member of Great North of Scotland Railway Board.(from 1915) and Chairman in 1922,  Mullay London's Scottish railways and Vallance

Earle, Hardman
Born in Liverpool on 11 July 1792 and died at Allerton Tower in Childwall on 25 January 1877. Liverpool cotton broker. One of promoters of the Grand Junction Railway. Director of LNWR. Name led to Earlestown. Braine: The railway Moon..

Ellis, Edward Shipley
Sonn of John Ellis (below) and chairman  of Midland Railway 1873-9. Simmons Oxford Companion.

Ellis, John
Born at Sharman's Lodge near Leicester on 3 August 1789 and died on 26 October 1862. Promoter of Leicester & Swannington Railway. Chairman of the Midland Railway from 1849 until 1858; had been deputy chairman since the company's formation in 1844 and a director of the Midland Counties Railway. Instrumental in the Midland Railway's acquisition of the Bristol & Gloucester Railway in 1846. Liberal MP for Leicester 1848-52. Son Edward Shipley Ellis also a chairman of the Midland Railway. Simmons Oxford Companion.and ODNB entry by Miller Christy rev. Alan R. Griffin..

Ellis, Sir William Henry
Born Rotherham 20 August 1860; died 4 July 1945. Master Cutler of Sheffield, 1914–18. Colonel Engineer and Railway Staff Corps. President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1926; President of the Iron and Steel Institute, 1924–25; Member of National Physical Laboratory and Cambridge University Appointments Board; Member of the Privy Council Committee of the Depart of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1925–26; Who Was Who

Firth, Bernard Alexander
Times obituary (26 February 1929) refers to memorioal service in Sheffield Cathedral of Colonel Firth of the steel and armament firm of Thomas Firth & Sons of Sheffield. Refers to very active directorship of LNER, and also a board member of English Electric. Reed refers to a "J.B. Firth" being chairman of the LNER Locomotive Committee (Hughes LNER confirms that Bernard Firth was Chairman of LNER Locomotive Committee and succeeded by Andrew K. McCosh). who took an active role in the acquistion of former ROD 2-8-0s. He was 63 at the time of his death.

Fitch, S.A.
Member of four man Southern Railway delegation to North America to examine diesel traction. He represented the Superintendent of Operation. Bulleid: Bulleid of the Southern.

Fleetwood, Peter Hesketh
Born at Wennington Hall, near Lancaster, on 9 May 1801; died in London, on 12 April 1866. Founder of the town of Fleetwood, and descendant of ancient Lancashire families of Hesketh and Fleetwood. On death of his elder brother, Edward, in 1820, he became heir to the considerable estates his father had developed in the Rossall area. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, graduating BA in 1823 and MA in 1826. He was high sheriff of Lancashire in 1830, and sat as MP for Preston from 1832 to 1847; initially a Conservative, by 1837 he was recorded by Dod as a Liberal. He was a strong advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. He assumed the surname of Fleetwood by royal licence on 5 March 1831, and was created a baronet in June 1838.
Impressed by the poor facilities of Lancashire and by the opportunities of opening the country by railway construction, Hesketh-Fleetwood planned a new town, designed by Decimus Burton, on his estate at Rossall at the mouth of the River Wyre, in the Fylde, Lancashire. Burton's plan was ready in 1835, construction starting in 1836: it was one of the first towns to be planned around a railway. Shortage of capital and an underestimation of railway and building costs brought Hesketh-Fleetwood near to bankruptcy, and in 1844 he had to sell family estates at Blackpool and Rossall (as a result of which sale Rossall School was founded). Further land sales followed in 1850. The town prospered but its founder's family did not. From ODNB entry by H.C.G. Matthew. See also Flann Backtrack, 2011, 25, 676.

Surnames beginning "Ga"

Galt, William
Solicitor 1809-1874: advocate of nationalisation on lines of Post Office. Wragg Historical dictionary. Author of Rilway reform 1843 (several editions: Ottley 425) and Railway reform 1864 (Ottley 4377)

Garrow, William M.
Superintendent of the Line, Highland Railway: appointed 1 May 1890; retired 1901. Dawn Smith.

Geach, Charles
Born in Cornwall in 1808. In 1836 accepted position of manager of Midland Banking Company in Birmingham where he grew to be a local public figure and eventually an MP. Invested in railways and railway suppliers, notably Walker's Patent Shaft & Axle Works. Died 1 November 1854. Robert C. McWilliam in Chrimes.

Glenarthur, 1st Baron
Matthew Arthur was born on 9 March 1852 and was created Lord Glenarthur in 1903. He had been educated at Glasgow University and was Chairman of several organisations including the Glasgow & South Western Railway from 1920-22. According to Mullay's London's Scottish railways he had served on the Board for 22 years. He died on 23 September 1928. (Who was who)

Goulding, Sir William Joshua
Born 7 March 1856; died 12 July 1925. Educated at Cambridge University. Chairman, Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland; Deputy-Chairman, Fishguard and Rosslare Harbours and Railway Company; an Irish Lights Commissioner; Chairman Irish Railway Clearing House. Who Was Who

Grenfell, Charles Pascoe  
Born in London on 4 April 1790: son of Pascoe Grenfell. He was educated at Harrow School and at Christ Church, Oxford, and married Lady Georgiana Molyneux, eldest daughter of the second earl of Sefton. The couple had four children, including Henry Riversdale Grenfell. Charles Pascoe Grenfell served as MP for Preston in 1847–52, and also again in 1857–65. Between 1846 and 1848 he was chairman of the London and Brighton Railway Company. Listed in directories as a copper master of Upper Thames Street, Charles was, for many years, senior partner in Pascoe Grenfell & Sons. He died at Taplow Court, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, on 21 March 1867. Most of information from Edmund Newell ODNB entry.

Grenfell, Pascoe St Leger
Son of Pascoe Grenfell and second wife was born in 1798. He was closely involved in the copper smelting business: unlike other smelters, he built his home, Maesteg House, in close proximity to his workers and downwind of the noxious copper smoke produced by the smelting works. Pascoe St Leger Grenfell's personal commitment to church and community was considerable. He taught a Bible class in a Sunday school for over thirty years, was involved with the British and Foreign Bible Society and the London Missionary Society, and in 1868 became the first chairman of the Released Prisoners' Aid Society. He was chairman of the Swansea Harbour Trust from 1850 to 1859, remaining chairman of its finance committee for many years afterwards. He was chairman of the Swansea Vale Railway Company, a member of the Swansea corporation, a justice of the peace, a feoffee of Swansea grammar school, and was deputy lieutenant for Glamorgan. He died in Nottingham, on 28 March 1879. Most of information from Edmund Newell ODNB entry..

Griffiths, Richard
Richard Griffiths, who was born in 1756 at Gellifendigaid Farm, a mile north of Pontypridd.  Although a medical practitioner he became involved in coal mining and built a 2¼ mile long tramroad and a 1 mile long canal in 1809 to link into the Glamorganshire Canal at Dynea. Died 1826. Internet and review of booklet publishe Pontypridd Museum in Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2011, (210) 59.

Grinling, William
Chief Accoutant GNR between 1868 and 1896. Father of Charles H. Grinling, author of History of the Great Northern Railway and of William J. Grinling who rose to become Chief Traffic Manager of the GNR. Dawn Smith

Surnames beginning "Ha"

Hacking, Richard
Mentioned by Jeffrey Wells in Backtrack, 2011, 25, 419. Website for gastropub notes that Heaton Grove, an imposing mansion, wherein resided the influential family whose head was Richard Hacking Justice of the peace, chairman of the Bury improvement Commissioners and partner in the firm of Walker and Hacking on of Bury’s leading industrial concerns. He was also an originator of the town’s first railway. In 1844 an Act was passed for the Manchester, Bury and Rossendale Railway, and he became one of the directors. Also Wikipedia East Lancashire Railway.

Harrington, J. Leslie
Chairman of the Railway Executive's Committee on the Types of Motive Power instigated on 20 December 1948 by Cyril Hurcomb of the British Transport Commission composed of Harrington, E.E. Rostern, A.C.B. Pickford and J.W.J. Webb (Executive Minute No. 1717)' Reported 1951 (not in Ottley, but widely cited and available in pdf format at Railway Archive). The terms of reference of the Committee were to examine the estimate future balance of advantage between: steam traction; electric traction, diesel-electric traction, diesel-mechanical traction and gas-turbine traction. Bond states that Harrington had been a senior member of the Chairman's staff at Waterloo with Missenden, Szlumper and Sir Herbert Walker at Waterloo. In 1938 he had been Divisional Marine Manager at Dover before becoming General Assistant to the Southern General Manager in 1941. In 1946 he was a member of a four-man team sent to North America to examine diesel traction as an alternative to electrification (Bulleid. Bulleid of the Southern). In 1951 he he was appointed Chief Officer (Marine and Administration) of the Railway Executive and by 1969 (when he retired) he had become General Manager Shipping and International Services. The BTC Report recommended a substantial trial of diesel locomotive traction; the use of diesel railcars for cross country services and electrification from King's Cross to Grantham and probably Nottingham. The names who had assisted are listed: Rudgard, but not Riddles, Bond, Cock, Cox, Dean, R.F. Harvey and Warder and some others (even more obscure). Rostern, Pickford and Webb have still to be traced. (12-2011).
Ottley lists two publications:
The Channel Tunnel and ferry. Oakwood Press, 1949. LP No. 4) (Ottley 1924)
Economic aspects of railway electrification. London, 1931. (Ottley 3490)

Hasell, Edward W.
1796-1872. Chairman of the Lancaster & Carlisle Railway. Braine: The railway Moon (includes a portrait on page 263)..

Hawkins, Sir Christopher
Cornish landowner died 6 April 1829. His estate and Trewint, his home, passed to nephew. Between they developed china clay industry and Pentewan Harbour and Railway. See Evans, Robert E. The Pentewan Railway, 1829-1918. Rly Arch., 2010 (29) 2-23.

Hill, Sir Reginald
Born 27 November 1888, died 26 December 1971. Educated Merchant Taylors’ School and St John’s College, Oxford. Entered Board of Trade, 1912; Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Transport, 1940; Ministry of War Transport, 1941–54; Deputy Director-General (Inland Transport), Ministry of War Transport, 1941–47; Chairman. Docks and Inland Waterways Board of Management, British Transport Commission, 1948–54. Who Was Who. Mullay, A.J. Britain's railway canals. Part 3. Rly Arch., 2011 (32), 55.

Hill, Rowland
Born on 3 December 1795 in Kidderminster, third of the eight children of Thomas Wright Hill (1763–1851), schoolmaster. About 1803 Rowland entered Hill Top, his father's school in a Birmingham suburb, where despite the effects of scarlet fever which permanently weakened his health he developed his skills as a mathematician and mechanical engineer. For a time his considerable energy was expended on work on a series of inventions and ideas, such as a rotary printing press, a scheme for pneumatic dispatch of messages, and road-building machinery. In January 1837 Hill published the first edition of Post Office Reform: its Importance and Practicability, after submitting the gist of his proposals privately to Lord Melbourne's government. In this pamphlet Hill undertook two tasks simultaneously. The first was to attack the current postal system as overly complicated, usually requiring the recipient of a letter to pay for postage based on the number of sheets the letter contained and the distance it had been conveyed. Under this system a letter of a single sheet sent from London to Birmingham cost as much as 9d. Matters were made worse by the fact that London was served by three separate delivery systems. Thus a Londoner might receive mail from three different letter-carriers. Elsewhere it was usually the case that mail had to be collected from local post offices and posted not, as later, in roadside boxes, but at the same local post offices or in ‘receiving’ houses. Hill insisted that this unwieldy arrangement unfairly taxed the public and inhibited the expansion of trade and ideas. Hill's second goal in writing this pamphlet was to propose an alternative system of a standard prepayment for letters conveyed between principal towns and cities, regardless of the specific distance involved. Hill would later modify and improve details of this scheme, most importantly suggesting the use of stamps as one method of prepayment. However, his fundamental approach first presented in Post Office Reform remained unchanged for the rest of his life. Jack Simmons in his article on the Post Office in his Oxford Companion page 392 calls Hill a "radical publicist" and notes the significacnce of the Railways (Conveyance of Mails) Act of 1838. From 1843 to 1846 he was a director and then chairman of the London and Brighton Railway Company. Sir Rowland Hill died on 27 August 1879 at Bertram House, his home in Hampstead, London. Venerated in death, he was buried in Westminster Abbey on 4 September. C.R. Perry ODNB

Hopwood, Harold L. . 157.
Died 23 April 1927 aged 46. Superintendent of Line for Southern Area, LNER. Joined GNR 13 January 1897. Published in Rly Mag. Founder member of Railway Club. Obituary: Loco. Rly Carr. Wagon Rev., 127, 33, 157.

Horne, Lancelot Worthy
Born in 1875. Educated Shrewsbury School. Entered General Manager's office of LNWR in 1893. Superintendent of the Line: LNWR (came from Chaplin & Horne: the sometime haulage agents to the LNWR). During WW1 was Secretary of the Railway Executive Committee. Retired at the Amalgamation. Died 7 March 1924. Reed.

Houchen, Harry Owen
Born in New Zealand on 24 September 1907; died 10 March 1981. Educated at Canterbury College, University of New Zealand. Career in transport and civil aviation. In 1962 joined British Transport Commission as General Manager British Railways Workshops. From 1964-9 member of British Railways Board responsible for engineering and workshops. Who Was Who and Bond Lifetime.

Hunt, Stanley Herbert
Died 19 October 1934: a director of George Spencer, Moulton & Co.and Vice-President of Executive, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 1927–29. (Who Was Who). Flann, Backtrack, 2011, 25, 334.

Irwin, R.C.
Secretary of LMS: retired 16 November 1927. Had been appointed Secretary of Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway in July 1899, and had served in that capacity for LNWR and then LMS. He was born in Carlisle in 1865; had entered LYR Secretary's department in 1881 and other than two years spent as a goods and fish canvasser in the Company's York office (1886-8) reamined in that department. Rly Mag., 1927, 61, 496.

Johnson, Sir Henry Cecil [Bill]
Born in Lavendon, Buckinghamshire on 11 September 1906. He was educated at Bedford modern school. Johnson joined  LNER as a traffic apprentice in 1923, and in 1926 became an assistant yard manager near Ely. After various posts in the operating department of LNER Johnson was appointed assistant superintendent of southern area, LNER, in 1942. In 1955 he became chief operating superintendent of the Eastern Region. He was promoted to be Assistant General Manager of the Eastern Region at the end of 1955, becoming General Manager in 1958, where he introduced the successful line management concept—an Assistant General Manager (Traffic) co-ordinating the work of the line managers. In 1962 Johnson became General Manager of the London Midland Region, and was also Chairman in 1963-7. He took charge of the electrification of the Euston to Manchester and Liverpool line, the first main-line electrification, completed in 1966, and the new Euston Station opened in 1968. Johnson became Vice-Chairman of the British Railways board in 1967. Following the forced resignation of the chairman, Sir Stanley Raymond, at the end of 1967, after disagreements with the Minister of Transport, Barbara Castle, Johnson was appointed Chairman, a post he held from 1968 until 1971.
The finances of British Railways improved under Johnson, largely as a result of the 1968 Transport Act, in which the government promised specific grants to make unprofitable passenger services financially viable where they were providing a public service. InterCity, started in 1966 as a new operation of high-speed trains linking major cities, expanded. In 1969 work began at the research centre in Derby on the Advanced Passenger Train. Johnson took a particular interest in the commercial development of surplus railway land, and established and became chairman of the British Rail Property Board in 1970. In the 1970s British Railways earned £20 million a year from land sales. Although there were large reductions in railway staff following modernization and the closure of uneconomic lines, there was some progress during the Johnson years towards improving industrial relations. While he did not capture the public imagination in the way of Beeching, he was extremely popular with the railway employees, who admired him as the only railwayman to have started at the bottom and worked his way up through the ranks to become Chairman of British Railways. He was fortunate to become chairman when the 1968 Transport Act had paved the way towards improving the financial situation, and he left British Railways with a surplus of £9.7 million. Johnson was appointed CBE in 1962, knighted in 1968, and became KBE in 1972. After retirement Johnson started a new career in the City, as chairman of Metropolitan Estate and Property Corporation, a post he held from 1971 to 1976. He later held positions on the boards of Lloyds Bank, the Trident Life Assurance Company, and Imperial Life of Canada. Always known as Bill Johnson, he had a friendly and relaxed manner, but he was shrewd, a good listener, and expert at delegating. Sir Peter Parker, a later chairman, admired his honesty and courage, describing him as ‘straight as a gun barrel’. He had an open, distinguished face, with silver-grey hair and large bushy eyebrows. In his younger days he was a keen rugby player and a cricketer, and he also enjoyed golf. He was a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club and the Royal and Ancient Golf Club. He died on 13 March 1988 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. ODNB entry by Anne Pimlott Baker. The railway in transport (Sir Seymour Biscoe Tritton Lecture), Rly Div. J., 1971, 2, 5,

Joicey, James
Born in Kip Hill, near Tanfield Lea, Co. Durham, on 4 April 1846; died Ford Castle on 21 November 1936. He was the younger son of George Joicey, a mechanical engineer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, and Dorothy, daughter of Jacob Gowland, of Wrekenton, near Gateshead. His father was one of four brothers who in 1828 had invested in a colliery enterprise at Tanfield Moor; the resulting concern becoming James Joicey & Co. after 1829. James Joicey was educated at Gainford School, near Darlington, and entered the family business in 1863. Initially, he was employed as an office clerk, but in 1867 he was offered a partnership by the then head of the firm, his uncle James. He succeeded his uncle in 1881 and seven years later presided over the incorporation of the firm as a private limited company. Thereafter, Joicey embarked upon a sequence of colliery acquisitions which led to dominance of the north-eastern coalfield. In 1896 he purchased, from the earl of Durham, the Lambton Collieries, and this concern, in turn, purchased the Hetton Coal Company in 1911. The merged company was known as Lambton and Hetton Collieries until 1924, when the original family partnership of James Joicey & Co. was wound up voluntarily and its interests absorbed. Thereafter, until the nationalization of the coal industry, the company was known as Lambton, Hetton and Joicey Collieries. At the time of its formation this concern was the largest colliery enterprise in the north-east, with a coal output in excess of 5 million tons per annum drawn from twenty pits. The company also owned by-product works, coke works, and brick and gas works.
Joicey did not confine his interests to the coal trade; he was for many years a director of the London and North Eastern Railway Company and, until a few years before his death, he was president of the Newcastle upon Tyne chamber of commerce. He was also a director of George Angus & Co., the Montevidean and Brazilian Telegraph Company, and the Dunrobin Shipping Company, as well as being the proprietor of three newspapers in the north-east of England. In business Joicey was shrewd, sagacious, and far-sighted. He was an advocate of colliery mechanization and related programmes of capital investment, but he was also a firm believer in enforced wage reductions in periods of trade recession.
Joicey acquired first the Longhirst estates near Morpeth, Northumberland, and later on, early in the twentieth century, the Ford Castle estates in Northumberland, near the border. In 1885 he was elected Liberal member of parliament for Chester-le-Street, and he held the seat until 1906 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Joicey of Chester-le-Street. He left an estate of more than £1.5 million. ODNB entry by R.A.S. Redmayne, revised by M.W. Kirby. See also Mountford. Lambton men. Part 2. Archive, 2004 (54) 35 (includes portrait)

Kennedy, Archibald (Third Marquis of Ailsa)
Born on 1 September 1847; died 9 April 1938. Educated Eton. Chairman of the Glasgow & South Western Railway. Family seat was Culzean Castle. Took an active interest in development of Turnberry Hotel and golf courses and associated Maidens & Dunure Railway: for which see McConnell and Rankin

Knaresborough, Lord (Henry Meysey Meysey-Thompson)
Born Moat Hall, York on 30 August 1845. Educated Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Sometime MP for Knaresborough, Brigg and Staffordshire. Last Chairman of the North Eastern Railway. Who Was Who.Tomlinson. .

Leeman, George
Born in York 1809-1882: Statue outside York railway station. Articled to a York solicitor, Leeman established a very successful legal practice in 1835. An Alderman of the city for 28 years he was elected Lord Mayor on three occasions and was a Member of Parliament for York between 1865 and 1880. In these roles he was a staunch defender of Yorks’ antiquities and pushed through the restoration of much of the city walls.Leeman was a successful lawyer and politician, who played a significant role in investigating George Hudson's illegal share dealings. In 1849 he succeeded Hudson as Chairman of the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway and promoted the mergers which created the North Eastern Railway Company in 1854. The North Eastern, with its headquarters in York, became one of the wealthiest railways in Britain: Leeman was chairman from 1874 to 1880. He was a prime mover in the development in the 1860s of iron ore mining in Rosedale to supply the Teeside steel works. At national level he was Chairman of the Railway Association of Great Britain and in 1875 at Darlington presided over the celebrations of the first fifty years of railways. Off Internet .Tomlinson. Statue in Station Avenue, York: see Backtrack, 2011, 25, 740.

McCosh, Andrew K.
Born 31 August 1880. Educated Fettes; Trinity College, Cambridge (BA Mechanical Science Tripos). mining engineer President. British Iron and Steel Federation, 1936; Deputy Controller of Iron and Steel, Ministry of Supply, 1939–42; President. Mining Association. of Great Britain, 1944; President British Employers Confederation, 1945–46. Died 27 September. 1967 Chairman of the LNER Locomotive Committee (came to LNER Board from that of the NBR.) (Hughes LNER) succeeded Bernard Firth

Manton, Lionel
Born 1887, died 23 July 1961. Served WW1 (despatches, DSO); Inter-Allied Railway Commission, Cologne, 1922–26; Assistant Director of Transportation, British Troops in Egypt, 1935–36; Chief Engineer Malta, 1936; retired 1936; Principal LMS. Railway School of Transport until Sept. 1939; Commandant No. 2 Railway Training Centre, 1939–41; Director of Transportation, India, October. 1941–June 1942; Principal School of Transport (Railway Executive), 1937–51.Who Was Who: Terry Jenkins Sir Ernest Lemon shows Lemon's involement in establishing the School of Transport in Derby.

Martin, John
John Martin succeeded Simpson as General Accountant on NBR. He was the son of a gamekeeper and was born at East Lodge on the Hopetoun Estate on 1 April 1856. In 1871 he became an apprentice clerk at South Queensferry Station and following service at other stations was moved to the Secrtary's Office in November 1874. Wieland retired in 1892 and joined the Board; John Cathles became Secretary and John Martin Assistant Secretary. In August 1901 Martin became Secretary to the West Highland Railway and became involved in the dispute involving Henry Grierson and the government funds received for the Mallaig extension. Martin was involved in the protracted negotiations with the Ministry of Transport for compensation for services provided during WW1. He retired at the last meeting of the Board on 2 March 1923. He retired from being Secretary of the Forth Bridge Company in February 1931. He had married Elizabeth Young, daughter of James Young, railway contractorn who had business dealings with Wieland and the NBR. He died in Edinburgh on 8 August 1931.  North British Railway Study Group J., 2010, (111), 30.

Matthews, Gilbert
Born London; died 22 Oct. 1969. Educated Westminster School. Joined Great Western Railway, 1908, General Manager’s Office. Toured USA to study operating matters. Traffic Department, 1911. Operating Assistant Superintendent of Line, 1934; Divisional Superintendent, Swansea, 1937; Principal Assistant Superintendent of Line, 1939; Superintendent of Line, 1941. Chairman REC Operating Cttee, 1945. Lt-Col Railway Engineer and Staff Corps, 1944. Operating Superintendent, British Railways, Western Region, 1948–55, when retired. CVO 1949; CBE 1947. Mainly Who Was Who

Meldrum, David
Manager of the Cheshire Lines Committee in 1899 and had been since 1 October 1882. Prior to that he held a similar post on the LNWR/GWR Joint Committee based at Chester, and before that he had served on Indian railways. He started his railway career on the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway. Rly Mag., 1899, 4, 385.

Mitchell, Sir Seton Steuart Crichton
Born on 9 March 1902; did 4 March 1990. Educated Edinburgh Academy and Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth. Joined Royal Navy in 1916. Qualified as a Gunnery Specialist in 1927-9. Between 1962 and 1964 he was Vice Chairman of the British Railways Board following his retirement from Government posts in Guided Weapons and Electronics. Bond states that he was brought in by Beeching to reorganise the railway workshops as he had been responsible for rationalising the Royal Ordnance Factories: Bond workefd closely with him on this task. Who Was Who and Bond Lifetime.

Morgan, John Pierpont
Eldest son of Junius Morgan, banker, John Pierpont Morgan, investment banker, was born on 17 April 1837, in the house of his grandfather Joseph Morgan, in Hartford, Connecticut. He was educated at the Cheshire School, at the Pavilion family school, and at the Hartford public high school, where his record was undistinguished; at the Institution Sillig, Vevey, near Geneva, in Switzerland, where he did well and consolidated his French and German; and then at the University of Göttingen. In August 1857 he became a non-salaried clerk in the New York bank Duncan, Sherman & Co. In 1864 one of the partners, Charles Dabney, joined Pierpont Morgan in the new firm of Dabney, Morgan & Co., which acted in New York as the representative firm of Morgans of London. In 1871 Morgan became a partner in the firm Drexel, Morgan & Co., which had houses in Philadelphia and Paris in addition to New York. In 1893 the name was changed to J.P. Morgan & Co., and this firm together with the London house was to constitute the house of Morgan.
Pierpont Morgan's reputation in the USA rested upon his prowess as the financier and reorganizer of various railways, and as the supreme corporate banker. In the UK he succeeded his father in 1890 as the head of J.S. Morgan & Co., which in 1910 became Morgan, Grenfell & Co.; by the 1920s it was probably the premier merchant bank in London. During Junius Morgan's lifetime, London was the major international capital market, but during the lifetime of his son, the pendulum gradually swung towards New York; the relative importance of the London and New York banks mirrored this change.
Pierpont Morgan bestrode the American investment banking world like a Titan: to his admirers he was straight, dependable, and powerful, but to others he represented the threat of monopoly capital and manipulative power. In Britain his impact was frequently great. In 1900, when for the first time since the eighteenth century the British government turned abroad to raise funds for war, they turned to the house of Morgan to issue loans in New York for the South African War. In 1904 Morgan caused a political crisis by his attempts to do for Atlantic shipping what he had already done for steel in the USA—namely, to put together by merger and acquisition a firm which would dominate its sector (as he had done with the United States Steel Company). Morgan believed that competition was wasteful and that co-operation was more logical; but the British government viewed his attempts to establish a ‘shipping trust’, made up of American and British shipping lines but run by Americans, as a threat to the national interest, particularly during wartime. The International Mercantile Marine merger went through, though with substantial concessions by Morgan to the British government, but Pierpont Morgan's relations with the British political élite never recovered fully.
The house of Morgan was built up by the intelligence, personalities and wills of the two Morgans, who shared an absolute integrity and devotion to first-class banking which inspired the trust of their banking and corporate colleagues. Junius Morgan was quieter and led a more private life than did Pierpont, who like his father lived well, but not quite as unostentatiously: he was almost as famous for his yacht Corsai and his art and manuscript collection as he was for his banking prowess. At one time he and Edward VII both had a relationship with the actress Maxine Elliott. Junius and Pierpont Morgan were intense Anglophiles. Pierpont died on 31 March 1913 at the Grand Hotel, in Rome. He was buried near his father at Cedar Hill cemetery, Hartford, USA, on 14 April 1913.
The two Morgans, father and son, together played an increasingly important role in British financial life. Their London firm came to have great historical importance after their deaths: Pierpont Morgan's son Jack led J.P. Morgan & Co. to act for the British government and the US government during the First World War, both as the financial agent for Britain and as the American purchasing agent. Furthermore, the house of Morgan took the lead in the private reconstruction of Europe during the 1920s, when Morgan Grenfell acted as the chief banker in London for the loans leading to the re-establishment of the currencies of Germany, Belgium, and Italy. ODNB entry by Kathleen Burk. Wolmar (Subterranean railway) notes that Pierpont Morgan was defeated by Yerkes in his endeavour to construct the London tube system.

Moss, John
Born 1782; died 1858, Liverpool banker and owner of West Indian sugar plantations: his 1000 slaves being freed under the 1833 Emancipation Act. In the same year he became chairman of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and of the Grand Junction Railway between 1833 and 1845. When the LNWR was formed Moss in 1845 retired, as he distrusted George Carr Glyn and turned his attention to railway promotion in France and the Netheerlands. See review of book by Graham Trust by Gordon Biddle in J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2011, (210) 58.

Ness, James
General Manager, Scottish Region (for activities, photographs, etc see also file on Frank Jones). Mullay's Scottish Region is decidedly disappointing on the topic of Ness and merely reiterates Gourvish's somewhat acidic comments on his lack of ability and adds little biographical colour. The LNER Magazine (1939, p. 607) notes that he was appointed Assistant to the Divisional General Manager of the Scottish Area and that he gained wide experience prior to becoming Assistant District Goods & passenger Manager at Dundee. A short piece in the LNER Magazine 1946 noted that he had become a Traffic Apprentice in 1924.

Norman, Albert William
Born in 1883 and died in 1967. Joined the London & North Western Railway at Broad Street Goods Depot in 1895 and rose to be Assistant Stores Superintendent in 1933 and Chief Stores Superintendent of the LMS in 1946 and the first Chief Stores Officer of British Railways until his retirement at the end of 1948. J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2006, 35, 346. Includes portrait and medal issued by the Company to employees who coontinued to work during the General Strike.

Pearce, R.E.
Secretary of the North Staffordshire Railway from 1894 until the Grouping. Dawn Smith. portrait Rly Mag., 1899, 4, 97.:

Pearson, Charles
Not a traditional railway manager, but a promoter of Metropolitan Railway. Born in London on 4 October 1793 and died in Wandsworth on 14 September 1862. In 1839 Pearson was appointed City solicitor and held the office until his death. In this position, and as MP for Lambeth from 1847 to 1850, he campaigned for London improvements including the embankment of the Thames, a central railway terminus in the Fleet valley and improved transport by an underground railway, in which he was successful. Pearson was associated, with the City's consent, with early versions of this project, and in 1857 he joined forces with the promoters of the Metropolitan Railway from Paddington to Farringdon Street, which was in financial doldrums with no work started; the City took £200,000 in shares in 1859 (which it later sold at a profit), and Pearson's skilful advice and lobbying. He also pushed for cheap workmen's fares to asssit the poor to move to healthier suburbs. Michael Robbins ODNB. Also Wragg Historical dictionary

Price, Francis Swaine
Served on HMS Teremaire at Trafalgar: served as manager of the Pentewan Harbour and Railway. See Evans, Robert E. The Pentewan Railway, 1829-1918. Rly Arch., 2010 (29) 2-23.

Pullar, Albert Evans
Died aged 80 on 14 June 1945: working life with the family firm of J. Pullar and Son, Ltd., cleaners and dyers of Perth. After serving his apprenticeship in the firm’s engineering shop he proceeded to Leeds, where he attended classes in engineering at the Technical College. On his return to Perth he took part in the management of the business, subsequently becoming managing director and chief engineer, in which latter capacity he was responsible for the entire renewal of the steam plant and large extensions to the machinery. He was also a director of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. IME obituary

Quelch, John George
Mineral Manager, North Eastern Railway Northern Division between 1854 and 1874. Dawn Smith

Quirey, J.
Ulsterman: Vice-President of Executive, London, Midland and Scottish Railway responsible for accounting & services (ex-Midland Railway). Resigned on 4 November 1931 to take up appointment at Railway Rates Tribunal. Flann, Backtrack, 2011, 25, 334. and Terry Jenkins. Sir Ernest Lemon and A.J. Pearson Man of the rail.

Ree, Frank
General Manager LNWR. Died 17 February 1914. Educated Royal College, Epsom; France, Switzerland, and Germany. Entered LNWR in 1873: was District Manager in Liverpool, and Chief Goods Manager in London. Knighthood in 1913. Who Was Who and Reed.

Ricardo, John Lewis
Born 1812; died in London on 20 August 1862. In 1841 he became MP for Stoke upon Trent and was first chairman of the North Staffordshire Railway. In 1846 he established the Electric Telegraph Company. He was chairman of the Norwegian Trunk Railway which he contracted the construction jointly with Sir Samuel Moron Peto and Thomas Brassey. He was also chairman of the Metropolitan Railway. ODNB entry by W.A.S. Hewins revised H.C.G. Matthew.

Richardson, Thomas
Born Darlington on 15 September 1771. He was related by marriage on his mother's side to Edward Pease, Quaker woollen manufacturer and railway promoter. After a limited education at home, Thomas was apprenticed to a grocer in Sunderland. During the 1790s Edward Pease gave him money for a passage to London and an introduction to Messrs Smith, Wright, and Gray, Quaker financiers of Lombard Street, who engaged him as messenger, and then as a clerk at a salary of £40 a year. He rose to be confidential manager. He married Martha, daughter of John Beeby of Allonby, Cumberland, in 1799; there were no children.
In 1802 Richardson informed his employers that London merchants with bills for discount were habitually paying brokerage fees to bill brokers who secured accommodation for them. In recommending this practice to Smith, Wright, and Gray, Richardson claimed that country bankers dealing with the firm would be likely to take more bills, having been relieved of the payment for commission, but they rejected his proposition, and Richardson entered into discussions with Gurneys of Norwich, the established Quaker bankers, with a view to sending them bills for discount, but without a commission charge. Gurneys' response was positive and from this reaction there developed the largest discount business in the country in the period to 1850. In 1805, by which time his business with Gurneys was well established, Richardson joined with another former Smith, Wright, and Gray employee, John Overend, to form Richardson, Overend & Co., bill brokers trading from a small upstairs room in Finch Lane, Cornhill, in the City of London.
In 1807 the link with Gurneys' bank was strengthened when the new partnership was joined first by Samuel Gurney and then by his brother, John, who acted as the principal link with Norwich. By August 1808 the expanded partnership was responsible for supplying 42 per cent of Gurneys' London-acquired portfolio, including that of its branches. One year later, Richardson, Overend & Co. was transacting the whole of Gurneys' business, a fact which accounts in large measure for the firm's rapid rise to prominence in the London discount market. In 1810 Richardson twice gave evidence before the select committee of the House of Commons on the high price of bullion. He proved to be a highly effective advocate of the role of financial intermediaries, well represented in the case of Richardson, Overend & Co. According to his testimony, London bill brokers had proved instrumental in reducing the losses sustained on bills by country bankers, and in the case of his own firm, losses had been limited to ‘a very small amount indeed’. Richardson also described how his firm took in bills from Lancashire before sending them on to discount in Norfolk, Suffolk, Sussex, and Essex. This was followed by the revelation that the annual turnover of his business was in the region of £7-8 million, with about £1.5 million out on loan at any one time.
As a wealthy member of the Quaker ‘cousinhood’, Richardson was one of a number of Friends with financial and banking interests to be recruited by Edward Pease as investors in the Stockton and Darlington Railway project, inaugurated in Darlington in 1818. As a founding shareholder, Richardson subscribed the sum of £10,000 to the railway before the official opening in September 1825. He then offered the equivalent sum as additional liquidity during the early phase of operations when traffic revenues were, as yet, uncertain. Richardson also provided significant capital funding in 1823 for the inauguration of Robert Stephenson & Co., locomotive builders of Newcastle upon Tyne, and in 1828 for the purchase of the Middlesbrough estate. The latter was a decisive development in the history of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in so far as it opened up the prospect of a profitable coastal trade in coal, in competition with long-established interests on the Tyne and Wear. Never an active participant in the managerial direction of the Stockton and Darlington company, Richardson sold the bulk of his shares to members of the Pease family in 1844, thereby confirming the Peases' status as the dominant managerial force.
Richardson retired from the bill-broking business in 1830, in the heyday of his firm's prosperity, and following his death in 1853 the name of the original partnership was changed to Overend, Gurney & Co., with its premises located at 65 Lombard Street in the City of London. In July 1865 the firm became a public limited liability company and it was in this form that it failed spectacularly in May 1866.
Richardson built for himself a handsome house at Stamford Hill, Great Ayton, Yorkshire, where he interested himself in establishing an agricultural school for the north of England, to be managed by Friends. To this he contributed about £11,000. He owned a second house at Allonby, Cumberland, and he was a generous benefactor to the neighbouring Friends' school at Wigton. Richardson died at Redcar, Yorkshire, on 25 April 1853, leaving by his will money for educational purposes in the Society of Friends. M.W. Kirby ODNB biography.

Ridley, Viscount
Born on 6 December 1874. Died 14 February 1916. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. Chairman of the North Eastern Railway in 1902-1904. Who Was Who.Tomlinson. ..

Russell, Charles
Chairman of the Great Western Railway 1839-1855. MP for Reading. Chairman of Parliamentary Committee that examined Great Western Bill prior to receiving Royal Assent. Staunch supporter of Brunel's broad gauge. Death by suicide. Nock, O.S. Railway enthusuast's encyclopedia

Salt, Thomas
Born at Weeping Cross, Stafford on 12 May 1830; died 8 April 1904. Educated at Rugby and Balliol Colege, Oxford. Private banker then director of Lloyd's Bank. Chairman North Staffordshire Railway. 1883 until death. Who Was Who: portrait Rly Mag., 1899, 4, 97.

Scott, Archibald
Traffic Manager of the LSWR from 1852 until 1870, thence General Manager until 1885. Died 6 December 1910, Ellis. The South Westeern Railway

Short, Herbert Arthur
Born Bournemouth on 22 March 1895. Died 15 November 1967. Educated Bournemouth School. Joined LSWR in 1913. Served in Suffolk Regiment during WW1. Various appointments with Southern Railway Co., including Docks & Marine Manager; Chairman Southampton Harbour Board, Docks Committee of Railway Executive, Southampton Port Emergency Committee and Southampton Dock Labour Board during period of despatch of troops and equipment from Southampton for D-Day operations. Commanded Southern Railway Group, RE (Support Reserves), 1925-37. Deputy Traffic Manager Southern Railway, 1945; Chief Officer, Railway Executive., 1948; Chief Regional Officer, N.E. Region, British Railways, 1950. Loaned by Southern Railway Co. to Colonial Office and Argentine Government to advise on transport problems in Malaya, 1946, and in Argentine, 1947 and 1948 Member of British Transport Commission team to USA, 1957, to study US railroads. Former Chairman: Associated Humber Lines. Who Was Who.

Simpson, George
Born on 26 March 1833 at Heriot in Midlothian: son of village schoolmaster. Joined NBR as a clerk in the Cashier's Office in Ocober 1854 under J.P. Lythgoe, the General Accountant. Lythgoe and the General Manager, Thomas K. Rowbotham were dismissed in 1866 and the chairman, Richard Hodgson left at the same time. Simpson became General Accountant in January 1867 under the Secretary and David Anderrson became Audit Accountant under the General Manager. The remuneration for both accountants was £300 per annum. Simpson retired on 30 September 1905 and died at his holiday residence in Burntisland on 19 May 1910. North British Railway Study Group J., 2010, (111), 30.

Smith, Herbert Grant
Ernest Lemon's personal assistant on LMS: portrait in Terry Jenkins biography of Lemon page 227 and on page 201 where he was Secretary to the Railway Chairmen's Commission. Jenkins research makes it clear that Smith worked very closely with Lemon and was well aware of internal tensions at senior level especially with Ashton Davies.

Stanier, Sir Breville
Born 12 June 1867: son of Francis Stanier (below) and died 15 December 1921. Educated Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. Who Was Who. Deputy Chairman, North Staffordshire Railway and of Trent & Mersey Canal.:

Stanier, Francis
Deputy Chairman, North Staffordshire Railway: portrait Rly Mag., 1899, 4, 97.

Stemp, Charles Hubert
Born in 1871; died 18 March 1948 (Who Was Who). According to Mullay's London's Scottish railways was head-hunted from Great Eastern to North British Railway in 1917 where he introduced control system to handle coal traffic in Lothian Coalfield.

Stewart, Sir David
Born 29 July 1835. ; died 11 Oct. 1919. Educated King’s College, Aberdeen. Chairman of Great North of Scotland Railway between 1904 and 1919 and member of Board since 1891. Vallance. calls him a prominent Aberdeen businessman, Director of Northern Assurance Company and Aberdeen Comb Works Company, Twice elected Lord Provost; served nine years in University Court, during which he greatly extended the Aberdeen University buildings and the City of Aberdeen, so as to incude Old Aberdeen, Woodside, and Torry. Knighted by Queen Victoria at Balmoral.

Stride, Arthur Lewis
Born in Dover on 10 March 1837, the son of the manager of the National Provincial Bank in Dover. He was educated at a boarding school in Ashford and in 1856 was working on the Chatham to Canterbury section of the East Kent Railway. Once construction was over he was employed as district engineer for the Kent Coast and Sheerness section of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway. In April 1875 he was appointed General Manager and Resident Engineer on the London. Tilbury & Southend Railway. Prior to this the railway had been run by the lessees (the executors of Thomas Brassey) with the trains run by the Great Eastern Railway. He rose to be Managing Director in 1889 and Chairman in January 1906. At the age of 73 in 1910 Stride negotiated with the Midland Railway to takeover the railway and in 1912 he retired. In 1885 he leased Bush Hall in Hatfield and made it his home where he became a County Councillor and bred Jersey cattle (KPJ he presumably knew the Pearson family at Brickendonbury): he died at Bush Hall on 15 September 1922. . Peter Kay. J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2010 (209) 172.

Swarbrick, Samuel
Born in 1819, died at The Cedars, Tottenham, on the 22 January, 1899. Formerly General Manager Great Eastern Railway. In 1838 he joined the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, and rose to the post of Accountant, and in 1851 he was appointed to a similar post on the the Midland Railway. During the following fifteen years he assisted in promoting the great development of the Midland system which took place under Sir James Allport. In 1866 Mr. Swarbrick was appointed General Manager of the Great Eastern Railway and during the fourteen years he held that post the position of the Company was greatly improved, the problem of a northern outlet was solved, and the large suburban traffic originated. He resigned in 1880, and then acted as an adviser in railway matters. In 1882 he made, in conjunction with Sir James Allport, an exhaustive report on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, and two years later he became a Director of the Hull and Barnsley Railway Company. During the last eight years he lived in retirement at Tottenham. Mr. Swarbrick shared with the George Parker Bidder the gift of rapid calculation and the facility of dealing with large masses of figures. He was elected an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers on the 3 March, 1868. Min. Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs., 1899, 136, 363...

Taylor, John
Born in Norwich in 22 August 1779 into a Unitarian family. He died in London on 5 April 1863. When 19 he became involved in the Wheal Friendship copper mine at Mary Tavy and assisted with the construction of the unusual canal from the mine through a tunnel to Morwellham on the banks of the Tamar. He was involved in mining overseas and with his sons, John and Richard in the consultancy John Taylor & Sons. Edmund Newell ODNB (especially birth & death dates). D. Gwilym M. Roberts in Chrimes. The Redruth & Chasewater Railway is not mentioned in the above, but see. D.B. Barton The Redruth & Chasewater Railway, 1824-1915..

Thomas, Glegge
Secretary Estate Agent and Rating Surveyor Cheshire Lines Committee (had held this pposition for 21 years in 1899. Rly Mag., 1899, 4, 385.

Thompson, Sir Harry Stephen Meysey
Born Newby Park in Yorkshire on 11 August 1809. Educated Trinity College Cambridge. Active in agricultural improvements, especially influence of nitrogen as a ferilizer. Chairman of the North Midland Railway and Chairman of North Eastern Railway from 1855 until his death at Kirby Hall on 17 May 1874, shortly after he had been created a baronet. For a time he was MP for Whitby and took an active part in legislation to improve agriculture and the management of railways. His eldest son was a later Chairman of the NER (from 1912) as Lord Knaresborough. ODNB entry by John Martin. Tomlinson.

Tootal, Edward
1799-1873, Manchester silk manufacturer and director of LNWR from 1851 until his death. . Braine: The railway Moon..

Westlake, William
Contractor of locomotives and other means of haulage to Swansea Harbour Trust from 1883 to 1891. RCTS Locomotives of the Great Western Railway. Part 10

Wharton, John Lloyd
Born 18 April 1837. Died 11 July 1912. Educated Eton and Trinity College Cambridge. Barrister and MP. Chairman of North Eastern Railway 1906-1912 Who Was Who.Tomlinson.

White, G.T.
Died 17 March 1899: formerly Superintendent of the Line, LSWR (since 1882). Formerly Assistant Superintendent of the Line since July 1876. Had started railway career as a lad clerk in 1876. Rly Mag, 1899, 4, 383

Wieland, George Bradley
Died Mentone on 26 March 1905, aged 67. Born in London and joined the London & North Western Railway in the general manager's office. In 1873 he became Secretary of the NBR until 1892. On retirement, appointed a Director and in 1901 became Chairman. He was closely involved with the building and furnishing of the North British Station Hotel and the stocking of its wine cellars. He was a collector of works of art, but sold these when he returned to London. NBRSG website and Scotsman obituary.

Wortley, John Stuart
Subsequently 2nd Lord Wharncliffe. Chairman of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. Born Egham, Surrey, on 23 April 1801, graduated BA from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1822, with a first class in mathematics and a second in classics. He represented Bossiney from 1823 to 1832, Perth burghs in 1830, and the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1841 until his succession to the peerage. He died of consumption at Wortley Hall, near Sheffield, on 22 October 1855.

Wright, Francis Beresford
Born 21 December 1806 probably in Derbyshire and died on 24 February 1873. Director of the Midland Railway and Chief Executve of the Butterley Company. Devout member of the Evangelical side of the Church of England and paternalist, but puritanical, employer. Built Osmaston Manor, outside Ashbourne as family seat. ODNB entry by Robert Pearce. See Leadbetter. J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2008, 36, 33. and correspondence following from Jean Lindsay.

Wright, John
Of Lenton Hall, Nottingham. 1758-1840, Father of Francis Beresford Wright (above). Founded Butterley Company and involved in Cromford & High Peak Railway. Absent from ODNB but mentioned by Penny Watts-Russell in J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2011 (210), 34-46

Wrigley, Thomas
Bury papermaker, art collector (substantial bequest to the Art Gallery of both building and major paintings) and railway investor: He was a Unitarian, but gave funds to rebuild the Parish Church. He was not a member of the LNWR board, but was a major investor and highly critical of Moon. He died in 1880 according to Braine: The railway Moon (includes a portrait on page 208).

Wymer, Francis John
Born 6 December 1898; died 26 March 1976. Educated Merton Court, Sidcup and Eltham College. After military serce during WW1 joined SE&CR in 1920; Assistant to Traffic Manager, Southern Railway, 1932; Divisional Marine Manager, Dover, 1934; Assistant Continental Superintendent, 1938; Assistant to General Manager, 1942; awwarded CBE in 1943; Assistant Docks and Marine Manager, Southern Ry, 1945–47; Assistant Chief Regional Officer, Southern Region 1951–55. Member of Railway Chairmen's Commission during WW2. Mainly Who Was Who.

Young, John
Chief Accountant Cheshire Lines Committee since August 1896 (in 1899): previously with Accounts Departtment on LCDR. Rly Mag., 1899, 4, 385.