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See also:WATKIN, See also:SIR See also:EDWARD See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM , 1st See also:Bart. (1819-1901), See also:English railway manager, was See also:born in See also:Manchester on the 26th of. See also:September 1819. He was the son of See also:Absalom Watkin, a See also:merchant in Manchester, and was employed in his See also:father's counting-See also:house, ultimately becoming a partner; but in 1845 he was appointed secretary of the See also:Trent Valley railway, which was soon afterwards absorbed by the See also:London & See also:North-Western See also:Company. He next joined the Manchester & See also:Sheffield Company, of which he became See also:general manager and then chairman,subsequently combining with the duties thus entailed the chairmanship of the See also:South-Eastern (1867) and of the See also:Metropolitan (1872). His connexion with these three See also:railways was maintained to within a See also:short 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 of his See also:death, and they formed the material of one of his most ambitious schemes—the See also:establishment of a through route under one management from See also:Dover to Manchester and the north. This was the end he had in view in his successful fight for the See also:extension of the Manchester, Sheffield & See also:Lincolnshire railway (now the See also:Great Central) to London; and his persistent advocacy of the Channel See also:tunnel (q.v.) between Dover and See also:Calais was really a further development of the same See also:idea, for its construction would have enabled through trains to be run from See also:Paris to See also:Lancashire and See also:Scotland, via the See also:East London (of which also he was for a time chairman) and the Metropolitan. The latter See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme, however, failed to obtain the necessary public and See also:political support. Other projects had even less success. His plans for a tunnel between Scotland and See also:Ireland under the North Channel, and for a See also:ship See also:canal across Ireland from See also:Galway to See also:Dublin, did not come to anything; while the great See also:tower atWembley See also:Park (near See also:Harrow), intended to surpass the Eiffel Tower at Paris, stopped at an See also:early See also:stage. It was in the realms of railway politics that Watkin showed to best See also:advantage; for the routine See also:work of See also:administration pure and See also:simple he had no aptitude. He entered See also:parliament as a Liberal, and after representing See also:Stockport from 1864 to 1868, sat as member for See also:Hythe for twenty-one years from 1874, becoming a Liberal-Unionist at the time of the See also:Home See also:Rule split, and subsequently acting as a " See also:free See also:lance." In 1868 he received a See also:knighthood, and in 188o he was created a See also:baronet. His death occurred at Northenden, See also:Cheshire, on the 13th of See also:April 1901.
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