William Huskisson

Standard Name: Huskisson, William

Connections

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Occupation	Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre	On 15 September 1830 she and her husband attended, with a party from the government, the opening of Britain's first mainline railway, the Liverpool and Manchester (which also saw the world's first railway accident, fatal...
Textual Production	Ellen Wood	EW published Mildred Arkell, a novel in three volumes which deals with the effects of William Huskisson 's liberalisation of British trade in the 1820s. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1966 (1865): 12
Textual Production	Harriet Martineau	These collections supply parts of HM 's correspondence with Matthew Arnold , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Welsh Carlyle , John Chapman , Maria Weston Chapman , Anne Jemima Clough , Samuel Courtauld , Ralph Waldo Emerson

Timeline

1823

William Huskisson , as MP for Liverpool and President of the Board of Trade , secured the equalization of customs duties in Britain and Ireland, a big step on the road towards free trade.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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15 September 1830

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first large-scale passenger steam railway, was officially opened; public timetabled service began on 17 September.

Carlson, Robert E. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway Project 1821-1831. Augustus M. Kelley, 1969.

231-6

Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

256

Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.

81, 84-5

Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.

17-18

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