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	Benjamin Outram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Benjamin's began his career assisting his father Joseph Outram, who described himself as an "agriculturalist" but this covered many duties from arbitrating in the many disputes which arose from the enclosures acts to advising on land management and surveying for new mines.
		It was cast by Benjamin Outram and Company and it predated Thomas Telford's much longer aqueduct on the Shrewsbury Canal at Longdon-on-Tern by one month.
		Outram was the leading advocate in the construction of tramways using L-section rails, which were manufactured at his ironworks together with all the waggons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benjamin_Outram (480 words)

	Benjamin Outram (1764 - 1805)
		Benjamin Outram was naturally gifted and one of the earliest references to him in a consultancy role was in July 1787 (aged 23 years) when, accompanied by John Hodgkinson and others, he held discussions with the Erewash Canal Company to propose an extension of their canal to Pinxton.
		Benjamin Outram was the second son of Joseph Outram (an iron master and surveyor) and Elizabeth and the grandson of Joseph Outram and Sara.
		Benjamin's widow, Margaret Anderson, died on the 7 January 1863, aged 84 years, at 8 Forrest Street, Edinburgh, and she was described as the widow of Benjamin Outram, a Civil Engineer.
	www.brocross.com /iwps/pages/outram/bn-outram.htm (4068 words)

	Sir James Outram - LoveToKnow 1911
		SIR JAMES OUTRAM (1803-1863), English general, and one of the heroes of the Indian Mutiny, was the son of Benjamin Outram of Butterley Hall, Derbyshire, civil engineer, and was.
		On arriving at Cawnpore with reinforcements, Outram, "in admiration of the brilliant deeds of General Havelock," conceded to him the glory of relieving Lucknow, and, waiving his rank, tendered his services to him as a volunteer.
		During the advance he commanded a troop of volunteer cavalry, and performed exploits of great brilliancy at Mangalwar, and in the attack at the Alambagh; and in the final conflict he led the way, charging through a very tempest of fire.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_James_Outram (571 words)

	Minutes to be observed in the construction of railways
		Benjamin Outram's paper is known to railway historians but it is not, perhaps, quite so well known to canal historians, even though Outram's work encompassed the design and construction of both railways and canals.
		Although Outram used the word 'railway' to describe this form of transport, the term 'tramway' (or 'tramroad') was already in widespread use and it came to describe rail systems that functioned at feeders to canals but it must be emphasized that there is no connection between this name and Outram's surname.
		In 1932, M F Outram published a version of it as an appendix to her life of Margaret Outram (nee Anderson), based on a manuscript in the possession of the Outram family.
	www.brocross.com /iwps/pages/minutes/minutes.htm (2335 words)

	Derbyshire People - Benjamin Outram - remarkable civil engineer of the early Industrial Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Benjamin Outram, one of the most remarkable civil engineers of the early Industrial Revolution, was born in Alfreton, Derbyshire, the son of a land agent.
		Outram was an assistant to William Jessop on the Cromford Canal but soon became a leading engineer and eminent canal surveyor.
		Outram also developed an improved system of horse-drawn railways, using L-section cast-iron plate rails on stone sleepers, and supervised the construction of several hundred miles of such lines including many feeders from collieries to nearby canals.
	www.derbyshireuk.net /outram.html (227 words)

	Outram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Outram, Nova Scotia, an unincorporated district in Canada
		Outram Estate, vineyard and winery in New South Wales, Australia
		Outram Shield is a piece of fine silverware crafted by Henry Hugh Armstead
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Outram (130 words)

	Outram Family Genealogy Forum
		Re: OUTRAM from Yorkshire - Deryk OUtram 4/26/01
		Re: OUTRAM from Yorkshire - Deryk Outram 1/09/02
		Re: OUTRAM from Yorkshire - Deryk Outram 2/21/02
	www.genforum.genealogy.com /outram (662 words)

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		On arriving at Cawnpore with reinforcements, Outram, " in admiration of the brilliant deeds of General Havelock," conceded to him the glory of relieving Lucknow, and, waiving his rank, tendered his services to him as a volunteer.
		In February 1858 he received the special thanks of both houses of parliament, and in the same year the dignity of baronet with an annuity of £1oo0.
		He died on the 11th of March 1863, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where the marble slab on his grave bears the pregnant epitaph " The Bayard of India." See Sir F. Goldsmid, James Outram, a Biography (2 vols., 188o), and L. Trotter, The Bayard of India (1903).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=50264 (621 words)

	An unlikely achievement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Benjamin Outram, the most well-known and prolific designer of plateways, always referred to them as 'railways,' and the Surrey Iron Railway, constructed in 1803, was a plateway.
		Benjamin Outram at first refused to sell plates to the quarry owner, as he thought the alignment was poor, but later agreed, though he put restrictions on his usual three year warranty.
		Outram claimed that a horse could pull four times as much weight on a plateway of his design than it could on an edge railway; this may have been true, but may have had more to do with the quality of Outram's work than the type of rail he used.
	www.intemperance.net /carolyn/anunlikelyachievement.html (19430 words)

	Ripley town in Derbyshire England - Information accommodation and photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The population of Ripley stood at 19,636 in the 1991 census.
		Benjamin Outram along with William Jessop engineered the Cromford Canal (1793) which led to a junction at Ripley.
		Butterley Hall, built in the 18th century and home to Benjamin Outram for a number of years as well as once being once the head quarters of the Butterley Company, is now the head quarters of the Derbyshire Police Force.
	www.derbyshireuk.net /ripley.html (407 words)

	Huddersfield Narrow Canal - A History
		Benjamin Outram was appointed as Chief Engineer and Nicholas Brown as Surveyor.
		Outram recommended a route from a junction with the Ramsden Canal, Huddersfield, to follow the Colne valley to Waterside (Tunnel End), Marsden, and then proceed by a tunnel over three miles in length before descending down the Tame valley to join the Ashton Canal at Dukinfield Bridge.
		Outram fell ill during this time and Robert Whitworth was called in to report on the work.
	www.huddersfield1.co.uk /huddersfield/narrowcanal/huddscanalhist.htm (1441 words)

	Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet GCB KSI (January 29, 1803-March 11, 1863), English general, and one of the heroes, from the British perspective, of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (or the First War of Indian Independence, in Indian eyes), was the son of Benjamin Outram of Butterley Hall, Derbyshire, civil engineer.
		Immediately on his arrival in Calcutta he was appointed to command the two divisions of the Bengal army occupying the country from Calcutta to Cawnpore; and to the military control was also joined the commissionership of Oudh.
		In the second capture of Lucknow, on the commander-in-chief's return, Outram was entrusted with the attack on the side of the Gumti, and afterwards, having recrossed the river, he advanced through the Chattar Manzil to take the residency, thus, in the words of Sir Colin Campbell, putting the finishing stroke on the enemy.
	en.juugle.info /James_Outram_(British_officer).htm (1035 words)

	Huddersfield Narrow Canal Company and its Managers
		Outram, then twenty nine years of age, was one of Britain's promising young civil engineers who was already managing partner of an important ironworks in Derbyshire.
		Outram's tasks were exacting but, as a young member of his profession, he does not seem to have acquired an entourage of well-tried resident engineers and contractors, who could be called on to execute works under his control.
		To some extent, Outram must be blamed for tolerating this state of affairs, but it did not help matters when he was forced through illness to absent himself for long periods during the critical years of 1795 and 1796.
	www.huddersfield1.co.uk /huddersfield/narrowcanal/huddscanalmanag.htm (656 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Additionally, although, for example, Telford was known for his roads and bridges, and Benjamin Outram developed a specialty consulting practice in railways, each of these men seems to have been willing to take on many types of engineering tasks--each man’s body of work includes water supply and drainage facilities, docks and harbours, canals and bridges.
		That same year he resurveyed Benjamin Outram’s route for the Derby Canal, suggesting that Little Eaton rather than Denby be chosen as the terminus and that a railway be built from there (Outram later designed and constructed it).
		For example, Benjamin Outram and William Jessop, along with Francis Beresford and John Wright, formed a partnership to purchase Butterley Hall in Ripon, Derbyshire, in 1790 (7).
	users.ox.ac.uk /~shug1554/Manual/Dougherty.doc (5110 words)

	GENUKI: Review of "Benjamin Outram", by Julie Bunting
		Benjamin Outram played a major role in canal development but until now - partly because he died comparatively young - he has been a far more a shadowy figure than his contemporaries Arkwright and Jessop.
		Outram had the advantage of being a natural negotiator and was not above appealing to a man's patriotism in haggling over a price for work 'of national importance'.
		Outram's work on early railways is recognised as a milestone in transport technology.
	www.wishful-thinking.org.uk /genuki/DBY/Bibliography/Review18.html (539 words)

	Benjamin Outram, 1764–1805 by R.B Schofield
		Outram also developed an improved system of horse-drawn railways, using L-section cast-iron plate rails, and built hundreds of miles of such lines, including those of the Derby, Peak Forest and Ashby de la Zouch canals, the Grand Junction's Blisworth Hill railway, and important lines in the Monmouthshire valleys.
		As if this was not enough for a man who was only 41 when he died, Outram established and ran the Butterley Company, the largest coal and iron concern in the East Midlands, founded in 1790.
		This new book, the result of many years' research and based entirely on archival material, is the most detailed study of any civil engineer of this period yet published.
	www.merton.dircon.co.uk /outram.htm (142 words)

	OUTRAM, Benjamin, Report & estimate of the proposed rail-ways from the collieries in the Forest of Dean, to the Rivers ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		OUTRAM, Benjamin, Report & estimate of the proposed rail-ways from the collieries in the Forest of Dean, to the Rivers Severn & Wye
		Benjamin Outram built a number of horse-drawn railways using iron plateways and was amongst a small handful of men to see their potential for long-distance transport, rather than the small lengths of local lines, often associated with a canal system.
		Outram describes his proposed line, its route and its construction (to his “improved plan”) in some detail.
	polybiblio.com /elton/5797.html (217 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Prof R B Schofield has written a book Benjamin Outram about the life of the man who was one of the most remarkable civil engineers of the early Industrial Revolution.
		Author Schofield reports that Outram's original estimate of £178,748 was too low by far, while resident engineer Nicholas Brown's initial plot was inaccurate and the company was constantly plagued by the failure of investors to pay the money they had promised as well as by speculators to evade payments altogether.
		In one such savage entertainment, in 1797 during a drunken spree a rocking-stone on the Ravenstone Brow at Greenfield was blown up by miners from the canal tunnel One died and several were injured in the blast.
	www.marsdenhistory.co.uk /Examinerstandedge.html (663 words)

	GENUKI: Wills of Derbyshire - Surnames beginning O
		son Benjamin OUTRAM* of Burton agnes, co. York, Gardener; son Edmund OUTRAM* of Alfreton, Gardener; son in law William SHAW of Alfreton, daughter Elizabeth (William's wife); daughter in law Anne PAUSON of Elmton; son in law John WHITE of Alfreton; grandchildren Joseph and Anne, children of son Joseph OUTRAM (deceased).
		OUTRAM, George, of Leam, parish of Eyam, 8 Jul 1793.
		OUTRAM, Martha - of Purdy House Farm, Shipley, Derbys.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/DBY/ProbateRecords/WillsO.html (4580 words)

	History
		The preliminary work was rapidly completed by Outram and he reported to a meeting of the promoters on 8 September, l792.
		Outram's original report and estimates have not survived but an article in the Derby Mercury of 13 September, 1792 stated that the canal would begin 'at or near Swarkestone on the River Trent, passing by Derby to Smithy Houses, with a branch near Derby to the Erewash Canal near Sandiacre.
		Outram had been appointed engineer on 11 May and was already at work directing excavations for the canal and preparing for brick manufacture.
	www.derbycanal.org.uk /history.htm (2711 words)

	GENUKI: What's in a Name, OUTRAM, from "The Peak Advertiser", Derbyshire
		So if the foregoing analysis is valid, it may be taken that "Outram" is a surname derived from some settlement identified as being "the place just beyond the boundaries".
		The oldest allusions are to "Robert Owtram" at Barlow near Chesterfield, c.1600 and to "Joseph Outram" of Alfreton, 1732.
		Contrary to a widely held local tradition the word "tram" as referring to the passenger transport vehicle is not derived from the name of a Benjamin Outram.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/DBY/NamesPersonal/Outram.html (1148 words)

	Waterways Chronology from 1798 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He was invted to survey the river, consider the surveys made by Benjamin Outram in 1795 and Robert Whitworth in 1797 and propose improvements.
		He criticised Benjamin Outram's plans for plateways, and rafts to carry the trucks, saying their use on the narrow canal would cause damage.
		He asked the company for a small annual stipend saying he was in "the decline of life" and without employment.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Chronology12.html (2135 words)

	OUTRAM, SIR JAMES (180... - Online Information article about OUTRAM, SIR JAMES (180...
		Havelock to fall back on Cawnpore, which he only held with difficulty, although a speedy advance was necessary to See also:
		On arriving at Cawnpore with reinforcements, Outram, " in admiration of the brilliant deeds of General Havelock," conceded to him the See also:
		commander-in-chief's return, Outram was entrusted with the attack on the side of the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ORC_PAI/OUTRAM_SIR_JAMES_18031863_.html (1341 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Tramway or Tram Rails. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		We are told there were waggons called drams (or trams).
		Benjamin Outram, in 1800, used stone rails at Little Eaton, Derbyshire; but the similarity between tram and Outram is a mere coincidence.
		Perhaps he was the cause of the word dram being changed to tram, but even this is doubtful.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/16704.html (157 words)

	Ron's World Tram Site - History
		In the 17th century "tramways" or ways paved with wooden beams were commonplace and used for carrying coal by means of horse drawn wagons from mines.
		Benjamin Outram was possibly one of the first men to make use of iron rails to any significant extent.
		In 1776 he laid a tramway for the Duke of Norfolks colliery at Sheffield, England.
	members.ispwest.com /ronsmith/trams/history.htm (428 words)

	Benjamin Outram, 1764-1805 An Engineering Biography
		He went on to act for the Derby, Nottingham and Nutbrook canals in the East Midlands, the Ashton and Peak Forest canals in the North West, and the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, a major trans-Pennine route, as well as numerous smaller schemes.
		As well as his engineering practice, Outram established an iron company at Butterley, alongside the Cromford Canal, which developd into the largest such business in the East Midlands, with ironstone pits, collieries, limeworks and a puddling forge, besides the original blast furnaces and foundry.
		Benjamin Outram, 1764-1805: An Engineering Biography, a hardback of 352 pages with 24 plates and 32 line drawings (ISBN 1 898937 42 7), was published on 21 October 2001 at £24.95.
	www.brocross.com /canal/newbk.htm (316 words)

	Pentrich Historical Society - Pentrich a village full of history (Page 3)
		The original partners were Benjamin Outram, William Jessop Snr., John Wright and Francis Beresford.
		Outram and Jessop were prominent engineers, noted particularly for the construction of canals and the development of railways and docks in the UK and overseas.
		The name was changed to the Butterley Company in 1807, the gatehouse (at plaque 3) was probably built at that time, shortly after the construction of the Derby to Alfreton turnpike.
	www.pentrich.org.uk /html/history3.html (245 words)

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