George Hudson
Author | : A. J. Peacock |
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Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : A. J. Peacock |
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Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Alfred James Peacock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780951328019 |
Author | : A. J. Peacock |
Publisher | : Twayne Publishers |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780904775396 |
Author | : Richard Stanton Lambert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Author | : Alfred James Peacock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Matthew Wells |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword Transport |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2024-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1399057502 |
George Hudson was the greatest British railway entrepreneur of the 19th century. In 1848, he controlled over 1,000 miles of railway and, when it came to railway promotion, it seemed he could do no wrong. However, in early 1849 it came to light that some of his business methods had been less than ethical and he was forced to relinquish the chairmanship of each of his companies. His fall from grace was spectacular and his detractors, of whom there were many, were quick to denounce him as a fraudster, a charlatan and a crook. Even today, when the name George Hudson is mentioned, these same insults are often levelled at him. This new biography takes a fresh look at Hudson’s extraordinary life, from his humble beginnings as a farmer’s boy, to becoming Lord Mayor of York before catching the railway bug. He was MP for Sunderland between 1845 and 1859. After his fall from grace, Hudson endured a 20-year court battle with the York and North Midland Railway (subsequently the North Eastern Railway) for outstanding debts. Hudson made many mistakes in creating his railway empire, but did he deserve all the vitriol that still accompanies his reputation? In seeking to answer this question, Matthew Wells looks at the evidence, including what was said about Hudson during his lifetime and what Hudson himself had to say about the actions he took.
Author | : Tony Arnold |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781852854010 |
* The Robert Maxwell of the nineteenth century * Victorian England 's greatest capitalist * Brought down by a shareholder 's question The building of the railways in Britain in the nineteenth century was the greatest ever industrial undertaking in the world to that time.Financed by private enterprise rather than the state, the schemes to build new lines were characterised both by their ambition and by their need for huge amounts of capital.The most ambitious of all of the individual entrepreneurs, and for long the most successful, was George Hudson, the 'Railway King ', whose establishment of York as the hub of an ever-growing network of lines brought him huge wealth and great fame. Already a wealthy businessman and Lord Mayor of York before the advent of the railways, Hudson seized the opportunity they presented with both hands.He became an MP, lived in style and entertained lavishly.While his early lines were profitable, later ones were not.Ever more deeply committed, at a time when accounting standards were lax, he hid inconvenient figures until brought down by a question at a shareholders 'meeting in 1849.Disgraced, he fled to the Continent, his name synonymous with fraudulent capitalism at its most brazen.This new biography is the fullest examination to date of an extraordinary and complex man and his career.
Author | : Lynda Mugglestone |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191639419 |
Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world. In accounts made vivid with examples from a vast range of documentary evidence that includes letters, diaries, and private records, fifteen scholars trace the history of English from its ancient Indo-European origins to the present. They cover the language's versions, written and spoken, revel in its rich variety over fifteen centuries, and chart its varied progress nationally, regionally, and throughout the world. With scholarship at once impeccable and approachable, the authors describe and explain the constantly changing sounds, words, meanings, and grammar of English. This is a book for everyone interested in the language, present and past.
Author | : Geoffrey Cantor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2021-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000561682 |
The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the Exhibition.
Author | : R. J. Morris |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2005-02-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139442725 |
This is an innovative study of middle-class behaviour and property relations in English towns in Georgian and Victorian Britain. Through the lens of wills, family papers, property deeds, account books and letters, the author offers a reading of the ways in which middle-class families survived and surmounted the economic difficulties of early industrial society. He argues that these were essentially 'networked' families created and affirmed by a 'gift' network of material goods, finance, services and support, with property very much at the centre of middle-class survival strategies. His approach combines microhistorical studies of individual families with a broader analysis of the national and even international networks within which these families operated. The result is a significant contribution to the history, and to debates about the place of structural and cultural analysis in historical understanding.