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See also:BRASSEY, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1805–1870) , See also:English railway contractor, was See also:born at Buerton, near See also:Chester, on the 7th of See also:November 1805. His See also:father, besides cultivating See also:land of his own, held a large See also:farm of the See also:marquess of See also:Westminster; his ancestors, according to See also:family tradition, having been settled for several centuries at Bulkeley, near Malpas, See also:Cheshire, before they went to Buerton in 1663. Thomas Brassey received an See also:ordinary commercial See also:education at a Chester school. At the See also:age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a surveyor, and on the completion of his See also:term became the partner of his See also:master, eventually assuming the See also:sole management of the business. In the See also:local surveys to which he devoted his See also:attention during his See also:early years he acquired the knowledge and See also:practical experience which were the necessary See also:foundation of his See also:great reputation. .His first engagement as railway contractor was entered upon in 1835, when he undertook the See also:execution of a portion of the See also:Grand Junction railway, on the invitation of the distinguished engineer See also:Joseph See also:Locke, who soon afterwards entrusted him with the completion of the See also:London and See also:Southampton railway, a task which involved contracts to the amount of £4,000,000 See also:sterling and the employment of a See also:body of 3000 men. At the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he was engaged on portions of several other lines in the See also:north of See also:England and in See also:Scotland. In See also:conjunction with his partner, W. See also:Mackenzie, Brassey undertook, in 184o, the construction of the railway from See also:Paris to See also:Rouen, of which Locke was engineer. He subsequently carried out the See also:extension of the same See also:line. A few years later he was engaged with his partner on five other See also:French lines, and on his own See also:account on the same number of lines in England, See also:Wales and Scotland. Brassey was now in See also:control of an See also:industrial See also:army of 75,000 men, and the See also:capital involved in his various contracts amounted to some £36,000,000.
But his See also:energy and capacity were equal to still larger tasks. He undertook in 1851 other See also:works in England and Scotland; and in the following See also:year he engdged in the construction of See also:railways in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, See also:Prussia, See also:Spain and See also:Italy. One of his largest undertakings was the Grand See also:Trunk railway of See also:Canada, 'loci m. in length, with its See also:fine See also:bridge over the St See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence. In this See also:work he was associated with See also:Sir M. See also:Peto and E. L. Betts. In the following years divisions of his industrial army were found in almost every See also:country in See also:Europe, in See also:India, in See also:Australia and in See also:South See also:America. Besides actual railway works, he originated and maintained a great number of sub-See also:ordinate assistant establishments, See also:coal and See also:iron works, See also:dock-yards, &c., the direction of which alone would be sufficient to See also:strain the energies of an ordinary mind. His profits were, of course, enormous, but prosperity did not intoxicate him; and when heavy losses came, as sometimes they did, he took them bravely and quietly. Among the greatest of his pecuniary disasters were those caused by the fall of the great See also:Barentin viaduct on the Rouen and See also:Havre railway, and by the failure of Peto and Betts. Brassey was one of the first to aim at improving the relations between See also:engineers and contractors, by setting himself against the corrupt practices which were See also:common.
He resolutely resisted the " scamping " of work and the See also:bribery of inspectors, and what he called the " smothering of
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the engineer "; and he did much in this way to bring about a better See also:state of things. Large-hearted and generous to a rare degree, modest and See also:simple in his See also:taste and See also:manners, he was conscious of his See also:power as a See also:leader in his calling, and knew how to use it wisely and for See also:noble ends. Honours came to him unsought. The See also:cross of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour was conferred on' him. From See also:Victor See also:Emmanuel he received the cross of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order of St See also:Maurice and St See also:Lazarus; and from the See also:emperor of See also:Austria the decoration of the Iron See also:Crown, which it is said had not before been given to a foreigner. He died at St Leonards on the 8th of See also:December 1870. His See also:life and labours are commemorated in a See also:volume by Sir See also:Arthur See also:Helps (1872).
He See also:left three sons, of whom the eldest, THOMAS (b. 1836), was knighted and afterwards (r886) created See also:BARON BRASSEY. See also:Lord Brassey, who was educated at See also:Rugby and See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, entered See also:parliament as a liberal in 1865, and devoted himself largely to See also:naval affairs. He was See also:civil lord of the See also:admiralty (188o–1883), and secretary to the admiralty (1883–1885); and both before and after his See also:elevation to the See also:peerage did important work on naval and statistical inquiries for the See also:government. In 1893–r895 he was See also:president of the Institution of Naval Architects.
In 1894 he was a lord-in-waiting, and from 1895 to 1900 was See also:governor of See also:Victoria. In 1908 he was appointed lord See also:warden of the Cinque Ports. His voyages in his yacht " Sunbeam " from 1876 onwards, with his first wife (d. 1887), who published an interesting See also:book on the subject, took him all over the See also:world. Lord Brassey married a second time in 1890. Among other publications, his inauguration of the Naval See also:Annual (1886 onwards), and his volumes on The See also:British See also:Navy, are the most important. His eldest son Thomas, who edited the Naval Annual (1890-19o4), and unsuccessfully contested several See also:parliamentary constituencies, was born in 1862.
End of Article: BRASSEY, THOMAS (1805–1870)
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