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BRADSHAW, GEORGE (1801–1853)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 373 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BRADSHAW, See also:
GEORGE
GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
GEORGE, LAKE
GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)
GEORGE (1801–1853) , See also:

ENGLISH

English printer and publisher, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

Windsor See also:

BRIDGE

Bridge, See also:

Pendleton, See also:

LANCASHIRE

Lancashire, on the 29th of See also:

JULY

July 1801. On leaving school he was apprenticed to an engraver at See also:

Manchester, eventually setting up on his own See also:

account in that See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city as an engraver and printer—principally of maps. His name was already known as the publisher of Bradshaw's Maps of Inland See also:

NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

Navigation, when in 1839, soon after the introduction of See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, he published, at sixpence, Bradshaw's Railway See also:

Time Tables, the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title being changed in 1840 to Bradshaw's Railway See also:

COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

Companion, and the See also:

price raised to one See also:

SHILLING

shilling. A new See also:

VOLUME

volume was issued at occasional intervals, a supplementary monthly time-See also:

SHEET

sheet serving to keep the See also:

BOOK

book up to date. In See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1841, acting on a See also:

SUGGESTION

suggestion made by his See also:

LONDON

London See also:

AGENT (from Lat. agere, to act)

agent, Mr W. J. See also:

Adams, Bradshaw reduced the price of his time-tables to the See also:

ORIGINAL

original sixpence, and began to issue them monthly under the title Bradshaw's Monthly Railway See also:

GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

Guide. In See also:

JUNE

June 1847 was issued the first number of Bradshaw's See also:

CONTINENTAL

Continental Railway Guide, giving the time-tables of the Continental railways just as Bradshaw's Monthly Railway Guide gave the time-tables of the railways of the See also:

UNITED

United See also:

KINGDOM

Kingdom. Bradshaw, who was a well-known member of the Society of See also:

Friends, and gave considerable time to philanthropic See also:

WORK

work, died in 1853.

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