William Huskisson
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William Huskisson was a British statesman, financier, and Member of Parliament for several constituencies, including Liverpool.
Portrait by Richard Rothwell
Page 1 of the last will of William Huskisson
Photograph of the memorial erected at Parkside station in 1833
Eartham Church plaque erected by Huskisson's wife Emily
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened on 15 September 1830. Work on the L&M had begun in the 1820s, to connect the textile mills of the city of Manchester with the nearest deep water port at the
William Huskisson
…first widely reported railway passenger casualty, since he was run over and fatally injured by Robert Stephenson's pioneering locomotive Rocket at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830. However, a number of fatal railway accidents had already occurred before this. Huskisson was born at…
The Duke of Wellington's train and other locomotives being readied for departure from Liverpool, 15 September 1830
Fanny Kemble, a guest of Stephenson's on a test run of the L&M prior to its opening
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