William Huskisson

Standard Name: Huskisson, William

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort ascending	Excerpt
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
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...

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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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