George Leeman
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George Leeman was a lawyer, railwayman and a Liberal Member of Parliament for the City of York in the nineteenth century.
A statue of Leeman in York
A caricature of Leeman in Vanity Fair in 1872
The North Eastern Railway was an English railway company. It was incorporated by the combination of several existing railway companies by the North-eastern Railway Company's Act 1854. Later, it was am
George Leeman
…King' George Hudson after Leeman's investigations helped uncover Hudson's illegal share dealing. Leeman was deputy chairman of the successor company, the North Eastern Railway, from 1855 to 1874 and chairman from 1874 to 1880, having encouraged its formation through mergers in 1854, and he was a chairman of the Railway…
North Eastern Railway Heraldic Device
The North Eastern Railway headquarters in York designed by Horace Field and completed in 1906. Now The Grand hotel
Brompton station on the Leeds Northern line in 1961
Beal station in 1965