Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Great Western Railway: 1835 Founding Directors

From Graces Guide

Note: This is a sub-section of the Great Western Railway

1835 October 29th. First AGM of the GWR held at the City of London Tavern

C. A. Saunders is Secretary

First Directors appointed:-

  • Benjamin Shaw
  • Henry Bush
  • Ralph Fenwick
  • Charles Bowles Fripp
  • George Henry Gibbs
  • Robert Frederick Gower
  • Riverdale William Grenfell
  • Thomas Richard Guppy
  • Robert Hopkins
  • William Singer Jacques
  • George Jones
  • Peter Maze
  • Robert Bright
  • Thomas Pycroft
  • Nicholas Roch
  • Robert Scott
  • Henry Simonds
  • William Tite
  • William Tothill
  • William Unwin Sims
  • John Vining
  • Edward Wheler Mills
  • George Wildes
  • John Woolley



See Also

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Sources of Information

  • Bristol Mirror - Saturday 07 November 1835