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George Hudson

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George Hudson (probably 10 March 1800 – 14 December 1871) was an English railway financier and politician who, because he controlled a significant part of the railway network in the 1840s, became known as "The Railway King" – a title conferred on him by Sydney Smith in 1844. [1]

143 relations: Act of Parliament, Alderman, Attrition warfare, Bank, Beverley, Birmingham, Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway, Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, Board of Trade, Boston, Lincolnshire, Bradford, Braintree, Essex, Bridlington, Bristol, Bristol and Gloucester Railway, Buxton, Cambridgeshire, Castleford, Charles Bagnall, Charles Dickens, Cholera, City of Carlisle, City of London, Clarence Railway, Colen Campbell, Corn Laws, Darlington, David Barclay (MP), David Waddington (Essex MP), Derby, Dissenter, Doncaster, Eastern Counties Railway, Eryholme–Richmond branch line, Euston railway station, Francis Charteris, 10th Earl of Wemyss, Gateshead, George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton, George Leeman, George Stephenson, Gout, Grantham, Great North of England Railway, Great Northern Railway (Great Britain), Harrogate, Harry Meysey-Thompson, Henley-in-Arden, Henry Fenwick, Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey, High church, ..., House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Howard Colvin, Howsham, North Yorkshire, Hugh Taylor (MP), Hull and Selby Railway, Hull Paragon Interchange, Indian Rebellion of 1857, Jacobethan, James Meek of York, John Ellis (businessman), John Rennie the Younger, Joint-stock company, Joseph Rowntree (Senior), Keighley, Knightsbridge, Knottingley, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Latter-Day Pamphlets, Leeds, Leeds and Selby Railway, Leicester and Swannington Railway, Liberal Party (UK), Lincoln, England, Lincolnshire, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Londesborough Park railway station, London and Birmingham Railway, Lord George Bentinck, Lord George Cavendish (1810–1880), Maldon, Essex, Manchester, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, Mansion House, York, March, Cambridgeshire, Market Weighton, Matlock, Derbyshire, Melton Mowbray, Methodism, Michał Hieronim Leszczyc-Sumiński, Midland Counties Railway, Midland Railway, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norfolk Railway, Normanton, West Yorkshire, North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom), North Midland Railway, Nottingham, Palladian architecture, Pennines, Peterborough, Pickering, North Yorkshire, Punch (magazine), Queen Mary's School, Railway Clearing House, Railway Mania, Railways Act 1921, Rugby, Warwickshire, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Scrayingham, Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, Shipley, West Yorkshire, Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet, Sir Hedworth Williamson, 7th Baronet, Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, of Swillington, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Sunderland (UK Parliament constituency), Sydney Smith, Tadcaster, Thomas Beckwith, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, Tories (British political party), Tory, Tynemouth and North Shields (UK Parliament constituency), United Kingdom general election, 1832–33, United Kingdom general election, 1835, United Kingdom general election, 1852, United Kingdom general election, 1857, United Kingdom general election, 1859, United Kingdom general election, 1865, Whigs (British political party), Whitby, Whitecross Street Prison, William Digby Seymour, Wisbech, York, York and North Midland Railway, York Castle, York old railway station, York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway, York–Beverley line, 1843 in rail transport. Expand index (93 more) »

Act of Parliament

Acts of Parliament, also called primary legislation, are statutes passed by a parliament (legislature).

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Alderman

An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law.

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Attrition warfare

Attrition warfare is a military strategy consisting of belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel and materiel.

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Bank

A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates credit.

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Beverley

Beverley is a historic market town, civil parish and the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway

The Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway was a British railway company.

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Birmingham and Gloucester Railway

The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway was a railway route linking the cities in its name; it opened in stages in 1840, using a terminus at Camp Hill in Birmingham.

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Board of Trade

The Board of Trade is a British government department concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for International Trade.

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Boston, Lincolnshire

Boston is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England, approximately 100 miles (160 km) north of London.

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Bradford

Bradford is in the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, in the foothills of the Pennines west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield.

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Braintree, Essex

Braintree is a town in Essex, England.

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Bridlington

Bridlington is a coastal town and civil parish on the Holderness Coast of the North Sea, situated in the unitary authority and ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire approximately north of Hull.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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Bristol and Gloucester Railway

The Bristol and Gloucester Railway was a railway company opened in 1844 between the cities in its name.

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Buxton

Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England.

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Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.), is an East Anglian county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west.

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Castleford

Castleford is a town in the metropolitan borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

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Charles Bagnall

Charles Bagnall JP (1827–1884) was a British Politician.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

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City of Carlisle

The City of Carlisle is a local government district of Cumbria, England, with the status of a city and non-metropolitan district.

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City of London

The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.

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Clarence Railway

The Clarence Railway was an early railway company that operated in north-east England between 1833 and 1853.

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Colen Campbell

Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer, credited as a founder of the Georgian style.

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Corn Laws

The Corn Laws were tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and grain ("corn") enforced in Great Britain between 1815 and 1846.

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Darlington

Darlington is a large market town in County Durham, in North East England.

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David Barclay (MP)

David Barclay (29 September 1784, Eastwick – 1 July 1861) was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1826 and 1847.

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David Waddington (Essex MP)

David Waddington (1810 – 12 October 1863) was an English Conservative Party politician.

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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.

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Dissenter

A dissenter (from the Latin dissentire, "to disagree") is one who disagrees in matters of opinion, belief, etc.

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Doncaster

Doncaster is a large market town in South Yorkshire, England.

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Eastern Counties Railway

The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) was an English railway company incorporated in 1836 intended to link London with Ipswich via Colchester, and then extend to Norwich and Yarmouth.

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Eryholme–Richmond branch line

The Eryholme–Richmond branch line was opened in 1846 by the York and Newcastle Railway Company.

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Euston railway station

Euston railway station (also known as London Euston) is a central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden, managed by Network Rail.

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Francis Charteris, 10th Earl of Wemyss

Francis Richard Charteris, 10th Earl of Wemyss (pronounced weems, rhyming with seems) GCVO (4 August 1818 – 30 June 1914), styled as Lord Elcho between 1853 and 1883, was a British Whig politician.

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Gateshead

Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England, on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne.

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George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton

George Carr Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton (27 March 1797 – 24 July 1873) was a banker with interests in the railways, a partner in the family firm of Glyn, Mills & Co., which was reputed to be the largest private bank in London.

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George Leeman

George Leeman (August 1809 – 25 February 1882) was a lawyer, railwayman and a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of York in the nineteenth century.

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George Stephenson

George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer.

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Gout

Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis characterized by recurrent attacks of a red, tender, hot, and swollen joint.

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Grantham

Grantham is a town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Great North of England Railway

The Great North of England Railway (GNER) was an early British railway company.

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Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)

The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company established by the Great Northern Railway Act of 1846.

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Harrogate

Harrogate is a spa town in North Yorkshire, England.

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Harry Meysey-Thompson

Sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson, 1st Baronet (1809–1874) was Liberal Member of Parliament for Whitby between 1859 and 1865.

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Henley-in-Arden

Henley-in-Arden (also known as simply Henley) is a small town in Warwickshire, England.

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Henry Fenwick

Henry Fenwick (1820 – 16 April 1868) was a British Liberal Party politician.

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Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey

Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (28 December 18029 October 1894), known as Viscount Howick from 1807 until 1845, was an English statesman.

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High church

The term "high church" refers to beliefs and practices of ecclesiology, liturgy, and theology, generally with an emphasis on formality and resistance to "modernisation." Although used in connection with various Christian traditions, the term originated in and has been principally associated with the Anglican/Episcopal tradition, where it describes Anglican churches using a number of ritual practices associated in the popular mind with Roman Catholicism.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Howard Colvin

Sir Howard Montagu Colvin, CVO, CBE, FBA, FRHistS, FSA (15 October 1919 – 27 December 2007) was a British architectural historian who produced two of the most outstanding works of scholarship in his field: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 and The History of the King's Works.

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Howsham, North Yorkshire

Howsham is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England.

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Hugh Taylor (MP)

Hugh Taylor (1817–1900) was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament, a colliery owner with interests in the shipping industry.

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Hull and Selby Railway

The Hull and Selby Railway is a railway line between Kingston upon Hull and Selby in the United Kingdom which was authorised by an act of 1836 and opened in 1840.

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Hull Paragon Interchange

Hull Paragon Interchange is an integrated rail and bus station in the city centre of Kingston upon Hull, England.

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Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India between 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.

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Jacobethan

Jacobethan is the style designation coined in 1933 by John Betjeman to describe the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made popular in England from the late 1820s, which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English Renaissance (1550–1625), with elements of Elizabethan and Jacobean.

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James Meek of York

James Meek (1790–1862) was a Victorian Wesleyan Methodist, Whig politician, currier, glassmaker, and three times Lord Mayor of York.

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John Ellis (businessman)

John Ellis (1789–1862), of Beaumont Leys and Belgrave Hall in Leicester, was a Quaker, a noted liberal reformer and an accomplished businessman.

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John Rennie the Younger

Sir John Rennie (30 August 1794 – 3 September 1874) was the second son of engineer John Rennie the Elder, and brother of George Rennie.

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Joint-stock company

A joint-stock company is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders.

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Joseph Rowntree (Senior)

Joseph Rowntree (Senior) (10 June 1801 – 4 November 1859) was an English shopkeeper and educationalist.

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Keighley

Keighley is a town and civil parish within the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England.

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Knightsbridge

Knightsbridge is an exclusive residential and retail district in West London, south of Hyde Park.

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Knottingley

Knottingley is a town within the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England on the River Aire and the old A1 road before it was bypassed as the A1(M).

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Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping.

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Latter-Day Pamphlets

Latter-Day Pamphlets was a series of "pamphlets" published by Thomas Carlyle in 1850, in vehement denunciation of what he believed to be the political, social, and religious imbecilities and injustices of the period.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds and Selby Railway

The Leeds and Selby Railway was an early British railway company and first mainline railway within Yorkshire.

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Leicester and Swannington Railway

The Leicester and Swannington Railway (L&S) was one of England's first railways, being opened on 17 July 1832 to bring coal from collieries in west Leicestershire to Leicester.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom – with the opposing Conservative Party – in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Lincoln, England

Lincoln is a cathedral city and the county town of Lincolnshire in the East Midlands of England.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in east central England.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was a railway opened on 15 September 1830 between the Lancashire towns of Liverpool and Manchester in England.

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Londesborough Park railway station

Londesborough Park railway station was a short lived private station on the York to Beverley Line at Londesborough in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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London and Birmingham Railway

The London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, existing from 1833 to 1846, when it became part of the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR).

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Lord George Bentinck

Lord William George Frederick Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (27 February 1802 – 21 September 1848), better known as Lord George Bentinck, was an English Conservative politician and racehorse owner, noted for his role (with Benjamin Disraeli) in unseating Sir Robert Peel over the Corn Laws.

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Lord George Cavendish (1810–1880)

Lord George Henry Cavendish (19 August 1810 – 23 September 1880, Ashford Hall, Derbyshire) was a British nobleman and politician.

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Maldon, Essex

Maldon (locally) is a town on the Blackwater estuary in Essex, England.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway

The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) was formed by amalgamation in 1847.

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Mansion House, York

The Mansion House in York, England is the home of the Lord Mayors of York during their term in office.

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March, Cambridgeshire

March is a Fenland market town and civil parish in the Isle of Ely area of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Market Weighton

Market Weighton is a small town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Matlock, Derbyshire

Matlock is the county town of Derbyshire, England.

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Melton Mowbray

Melton Mowbray is a town in Leicestershire, England, northeast of Leicester, and southeast of Nottingham.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Michał Hieronim Leszczyc-Sumiński

Michal Hieronim Leszczyc-Suminski (Born September 30, 1820 in Ośno - Died 26 May 1898 in Tharandt) was a Polish botanist, painter and art collector.

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Midland Counties Railway

The Midland Counties' Railway (MCR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom which existed between 1839 and 1844, connecting Nottingham, Leicester and Derby with Rugby and thence, via the London and Birmingham Railway, to London.

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Midland Railway

The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.

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Norfolk Railway

The Norfolk Railway was an early railway company that controlled a network of 94 miles around Norwich, England.

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Normanton, West Yorkshire

Normanton is a town and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England.

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North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom)

The North Eastern Railway (NER) was an English railway company.

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North Midland Railway

The North Midland Railway was a British railway company, which opened its line from Derby to Rotherham (Masbrough) and Leeds in 1840.

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Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.

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Palladian architecture

Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from and inspired by the designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580).

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Pennines

The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of mountains and hills in England separating North West England from Yorkshire and North East England.

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Peterborough

Peterborough is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 183,631 in 2011.

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Pickering, North Yorkshire

Pickering is an ancient market town and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England, on the border of the North York Moors National Park.

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Punch (magazine)

Punch; or, The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells.

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Queen Mary's School

Queen Mary's School is an independent day and boarding school for girls in Baldersby Park near Topcliffe, near Thirsk in North Yorkshire, England.

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Railway Clearing House

The British Railway Clearing House (RCH) was an organisation set up to manage the allocation of revenue collected by pre-grouping railway companies of fares and charges paid for passengers and goods travelling over the lines of other companies.

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Railway Mania

Railway Mania was an instance of speculative frenzy in Britain in the 1840s.

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Railways Act 1921

The Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition and retain some of the benefits which the country had derived from a government-controlled railway during and after the Great War of 1914–1918.

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Rugby, Warwickshire

Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, England, close to the River Avon.

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Scarborough, North Yorkshire

Scarborough is a town on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire, England.

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Scrayingham

Scrayingham is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.

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Sheffield and Rotherham Railway

The Sheffield and Rotherham Railway was a short railway in England, between Sheffield and Rotherham and the first in the two towns.

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Shipley, West Yorkshire

Shipley is a town and commuter-suburb within the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, by the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, north of Bradford.

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Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet

Sir Edmund Beckett-Denison, 4th Baronet (28 January 1787 – 24 May 1874) was railway promoter and politician who was born at Gledhow Hall, in Leeds, on 29 January 1787.

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Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet

Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet, JP (18 March 1814 – 23 December 1893) was a mining engineer and self-made businessman from Gateshead in the North-East of England.

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Sir Hedworth Williamson, 7th Baronet

Sir Hedworth Williamson, 7th Baronet (1 November 1797 – 24 April 1861) was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1831 and 1852.

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Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, of Swillington

Sir John Henry Lowther, 2nd Baronet (23 March 1793 – 23 June 1868) was a Tory MP in the British Parliament.

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Stamford, Lincolnshire

Stamford is a town on the River Welland in Lincolnshire, England, north of London on the A1.

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Sunderland (UK Parliament constituency)

Sunderland was a borough constituency of the House of Commons, created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832–33 general election.

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Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric.

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Tadcaster

Tadcaster is a market town and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, east of the Great North Road, north-east of Leeds, and south-west of York.

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Thomas Beckwith

Thomas Beckwith FSA (10 February 1731 – 17 February 1786) was an English painter, genealogist and antiquary.

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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, translator, historian, mathematician, and teacher.

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Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey

Thomas Philip de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, 3rd Baron Grantham and 6th Baron Lucas, KG, PC, FRS (8 December 1781 – 14 November 1859), known as The Lord Grantham from 1786 to 1833, was a British Tory statesman of the 19th century.

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Tories (British political party)

The Tories were members of two political parties which existed sequentially in the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Great Britain and later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the 17th to the early 19th centuries.

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Tory

A Tory is a person who holds a political philosophy, known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved throughout history.

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Tynemouth and North Shields (UK Parliament constituency)

Tynemouth and North Shields was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1832 and 1885.

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United Kingdom general election, 1832–33

The United Kingdom general election, the first after the Reform Act, saw the Whigs win a large majority, with the Tories winning less than 30% of the vote.

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United Kingdom general election, 1835

The 1835 United Kingdom general election was called when Parliament was dissolved on 29 December 1834.

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United Kingdom general election, 1852

The 1852 United Kingdom general election was a watershed in the formation of the modern political parties of Britain.

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United Kingdom general election, 1857

In the 1857 United Kingdom general election, the Whigs, led by Lord Palmerston, finally won a majority in the House of Commons as the Conservative vote fell significantly.

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United Kingdom general election, 1859

In the 1859 United Kingdom general election, the Whigs, led by Lord Palmerston, held their majority in the House of Commons over the Earl of Derby's Conservatives.

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United Kingdom general election, 1865

The 1865 United Kingdom general election saw the Liberals, led by Lord Palmerston, increase their large majority over the Earl of Derby's Conservatives to more than 80.

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Whigs (British political party)

The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

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Whitby

Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Borough of Scarborough and English county of North Yorkshire.

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Whitecross Street Prison

Whitecross Street Prison was a debtors' prison in London, England.

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William Digby Seymour

William Digby Seymour (1822–1895) was an Irish judge.

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Wisbech

Wisbech is a Fenland market town, inland port and civil parish in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, England.

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York

York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.

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York and North Midland Railway

The York and North Midland Railway (Y&NMR) was an English railway company that opened in 1839 connecting York with the Leeds and Selby Railway, and in 1840 extended this line to meet the North Midland Railway at Normanton near Leeds.

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York Castle

York Castle in the city of York, England, is a fortified complex comprising, over the last nine centuries, a sequence of castles, prisons, law courts and other buildings on the south side of the River Foss.

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York old railway station

York old railway station is a former railway station in the historic city of York, England.

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York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway

The York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway (YN&BR) was an English railway company formed in 1847 by the amalgamation of the York and Newcastle Railway and the Newcastle and Berwick Railway.

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York–Beverley line

The York–Beverley line was a railway line between York, Market Weighton and Beverley in Yorkshire, England.

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1843 in rail transport

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hudson

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