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	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Edward L-Ef) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Edward the Confessor was a son of Ethelred and King of England from 1042 to 1066.
		Edward the martyr was son of Edgar and succeeded him as King of England from 975 until his murder in 978.
		Edward V and his younger brother Richard were declared illegitimate, taken to the Royal apartments at the Tower of London which was then a Royal residence, and never seen again.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /C41C.HTM (3074 words)

	WATERVLIET - LoveToKnow Article on WATERVLIET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was the son of Absalom Watkin, a merchant in Manchester, and was employed in his fathers counting-house, ultimately becoming a partner; but in 1845 he was appointed secretary of the Trent Valley railway, which was soon afterwards absorbed by the London and North-Western Company.
		He next joined the Manchester and Sheffield Company, of which he became general manager and then chairman, subsequently combining with the duties thus entailed the chairmanship of the South-Eastern (1867) and of the Metropolitan (1872).
		It was in the realms of railway politics that Watkin showed to best advantage; for the routine work of administration pure and simple he had no aptitude.
	27.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WA/WATERVLIET.htm (738 words)

	Watkins' Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Watkins' Tower was a partially-completed building in London.
		Shortly after the construction of the Eiffel Tower a British Member of Parliament, Sir Edward Watkin, proposed the construction of a tower in Wembley Park, London, that would be 46 metres (150 feet) taller.
		A company was set up to build the "Watkins' Tower" and construction on the tower and the surrounding park began in 1891, but when the park opened in 1894 the tower had only reached a height of 47 metres (155 feet).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Watkins'_Tower (240 words)

	Institute of Railway Studies: Edward Watkin
		Edward was often rebuked by his father for insolence and failure to attend to the business,which his father threatened to close if his sons did not mend their ways.
		Watkin was an outsider not just in politics as were many radical business men, partly because they lacked the aristocratic eases and assumptions once out of their own milieu, but even in the world of railways, as can be seen from his relationships with his fellow chairmen.
		Watkin was one of the pre-eminent railwaymen of the nineteenth century.
	www.york.ac.uk /inst/irs/irshome/papers/watkin.htm (6928 words)

	Watkins Family History Society - Famous Watkins People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Oscar Watkins He was a Bisley shot and a hockey "Blue" for Oxford University; a cavalry trooper in the Boer War; a magistrate on the Kenya Slave Courts which freed the slaves early in this century.....
		Watkins Born in Pennsylvania in 1845, law graduate of the University of Michigan, moved to Lawrence in 1873 to start a real estate title and loan business which he later incorporated as the J. Watkins Land Mortgage Company.
		Samuel Watkins - Watkins Glen Samuel Watkins, a founding father of the village now known as Watkins Glen, was a wealthy visionary who owned most of the land in the area in the early nineteenth century.
	www.watkins.net.au /?Famous_Watkins_People (927 words)

	Welsh Genealogy Notes
		Edward 2nd was first dethroned, and then murdered at Berkeley Castle: Richard 2nd was dethroned, and afterwards murdered at Pomfret Castle: Henry 6th was deposed in 1451, and murdered in the Tower, 1471: Edward 5th, an innocent child, after a few days reign, was murdered in the Tower, in 1483.
		Edward Morgan brought up to the law; he married Anne, daughter of John Conway, of Bodrhyddan, and dying in 1611, was succeeded by his son...
		Edward Williams, married Jane Lloyd, of Chester, and their daughter, Anne, was married to Sir Robert Howel Vaughan, of Nanneu, Bart.,(so united 21 June 1791).
	members.aol.com /dalesman/wales10.htm (8183 words)

	John Edward Taylor, Hugh Birley, Archibald Prentice and other Manchester Politicians and Social Reformers
		London born Absalom Watkin was the son of an innkeeper, though his father died when Absalom was just fourteen and he was forced to take work in his uncle John's cotton and calico manufacturing business in Manchester.
		Watkin fervently believed in the need for parliamentary reform and in 1815 he joined the Nonconformist radical group of liberals that regularly met in the house of John Potter.
		Watkin was a Methodist by persuasion and he believed in religious tolerance.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /celebs/politicians8.html (1446 words)

	Absalom Watkin
		Absalom Watkin, the son of an innkeeper, was born in London.
		Absalom Watkin was a supporter of parliamentary reform and in 1815 became a member of a group of liberals that used to meet in the home of John Potter.
		Edward Watkin became a Liberal M.P. and Alfred Watkin became Mayor of Manchester.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRwatkin.htm (1154 words)

	Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History \| readings: Channel Tunnel
		Sir Edward Watkin says that the tunnel will be perfectly ventilated, and we therefore presume that he and his colleagues know of a system which is, at any rate, better than that of the Metropolitan or District, but the question of ventilation is one which may be left for engineers to discuss.
		The arguments brought forward by Sir Edward in support of the necessity of the tunnel from a national point of view were as absurd as the figures we have referred to, and also carry a strong flavour of shareholders' meetings.
		Sir Edward Watkin hopes, doubtless, to be the chairman of the company which makes the Channel Tunnel, and his experience in the smaller ‘link' should be of great value in the more important international undertaking.
	www.york.ac.uk /inst/irs/irshome/features/readings/archive/tunnel.htm (3072 words)

	BBC Inside Out - The Great Central Railway
		Watkin was a man of great ambition and proposed the building of a Channel Tunnel in order to expand Manchester and Sheffield’s industries to European markets.
		Watkin spent years haggling with other companies to create links from the MS&L to London, but made little headway.
		Sadly Watkin retired due to ill health before the rest of his ambition could be realised.
	www.bbc.co.uk /insideout/eastmidlands/series1/great-central-railway.shtml (350 words)

	Great Central Railway -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The company expanded further on 1 August 1864 when it absorbed the South Yorkshire Railway giving it access to the south (A former large county in northern England; in 1974 it was divided into three smaller counties) Yorkshire coalfields.
		He had grand ambitions for the company: he had plans to transform it from a provincial middle-of-the-road railway company into a major national player.
		Watkin was a visionary who wanted to build a new railway line that would not only link his network to London, but which one day would be expanded and link to a future Channel Tunnel.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/great_central_railway.htm (1295 words)

	1908
		Shafts were sunk, headings were driven obliquely under the sea and plans were drawn up for underground stations at each end of the tunnel which would measure 23 miles.
		Edward Watkin offered to construct two forts to cover the English end with a battery and said the portal on the English side could be demolished immediately by explosives.
		With War Office objections, the withdrawal of the bill and the continuing hostile reaction to the scheme by the public,the sponsors accept that there is little chance of a tunnel under the sea being constructed in the foreseeable future.
	www.whitstablescene.co.uk /1907.htm (887 words)

	History of the Great Central Railway
		The MSandLR would have remained a modest east-west provincial line had it not been for Edward Watkin, who became its General Manager in 1854 and Chairman in 1864.
		Watkin was a man of great foresight, whose ambition was to link by rail the industrial centres of Manchester and Sheffield with the expanding markets of Continental Europe.
		Watkin worked for years trying to achieve his dream, haggling with other companies to provide the links between the MSandL lines and London.
	www.gcrailway.co.uk /more/history.htm (520 words)

	EDWARD WATKINS CLARK
		Edward Watkins Clark was a local man who became a member of the Church of the Latter Days Saints in its early days in this country.
		There are two versions of Edward's life which have come down in the family, with no explanation as to why there are two versions.
		Readers who have some expertise in the study of documents may be able to compare the two versions and draw conclusions as to the circumstances in which they were written.
	www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk /genealogy/clark/ewclark.htm (255 words)

	Sir Edward Watkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		L2653 Photographed from an original engraving, this is Sir Edward William Watkin, the Victorian railway magnate whose ambition led to the construction of the London Extension.
		During this time, Watkin was also the Chairman of the South Eastern Railway (1866-94) and the Metropolitan Railway (1872-94).
		In recognition of his service, Edward Watkin was Knighted in 1868 and created a Baronet in 1880.
	www.railwayarchive.org.uk /Lpages/html/L2653.html (290 words)

	William Morris in Commonweal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Amongst those who have anything to lose, those who are able to live in tolerably pleasant places without being too stupified by poverty to prevent their enjoying them, among the cultivated middle-classes in short, I should think the latter feeling prevails.
		This feeling shines pretty clearly through the conventional twaddle which is being written in the newspapers about the splendour of the discovery, and the splendid energy of that great and beneficent employer of labour, Sir Edward Watkin, whose virtues this grand discovery is advertising in a quite providential manner.
		They have learned by this time that Sir Edward Watkin and his pals will stick to whatever swag they may filch out of Kentish coal, which belongs to the people not to them, and will only yield to the workers what they are compelled to yield.
	www.marxists.org /history/international/social-democracy/1890/03-coal-kent.htm (682 words)

	Amersham Line
		The history of this route is tied to two railway companies and one man - Sir Edward Watkin who became chairman of the Metropolitan Railway in 1872, adding to his interests in the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MSLR).
		However, the expansion was also part of Watkin's great scheme to build a new trunk railway line from the north to London and beyond.
		However Watkins had to resign his chairmanship of the Metropolitan and GCR in 1894 through ill health and the relationship between the companies progressively deteriorated.
	www.bucksrailways.co.uk /amersham.htm (735 words)

	Gladstone's Speech
		"Sir Edward Watkin, ladies and gentlemen, I believe there is no fixed programme of proceedings for the present day beyond that which has just been accomplished.
		Sir Edward Watkin makes it a boast that he draws his extraction from Wales, and if he draws his extraction from Wales, no man, I will venture to say, has ever rendered a more substantial and more effective Service to his country than he has done by promoting and procuring the erection of this bridge.
		From the railways on the western side of the country we have derived, for the purpose of establishing a communication of Wales with Lancashire and the Mersey, we have derived unhappily, no assistance.
	www.angelfire.com /fl/shotton/gladspeech.html (299 words)

	Wembley Stadium - History Introduction
		Then in 1889, in a bid to encourage more people to use the railways, the Chairman of the Metropolitan Railway, Sir Edward Watkin, decided to build a main attraction at the site, linked to central London by a railway line.
		It became known as Watkin's Folly and stood overlooking the Leisure Grounds where it became a curious tourist attraction in its own right until it was dynamited out of existence in 1907.
		The Exhibition area covered 219 acres and the area on which Watkin's Folly had stood was chosen as the site for the new stadium.
	www.wembleystadium.com /GloriousPast/historyIntroduction (507 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - Edgware Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sir Edward Watkin's dream of a 1,200ft skyscraper to dwarf Eiffel's edifice in Paris began wilting after just 150ft as his Wembley Tower began sinking into marshland.
		The site of what became known as Watkin's Folly is now covered by Wembley Stadium, but long lost documents relating to the tower's short-lived but remarkable history have been rediscovered.
		They provide a fascinating insight into the practicalities of turning into reality the dream of Sir Edward, who had been inspired by seeing the Eiffel Tower unveiled during the 1889 Exhibition of France.
	www.edgwaretimes.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=90822 (311 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Wales \| North West Wales \| Footpath finished 110 years late
		It was named after the railway magnate Sir Edward Watkin, who first built it in 1892.
		National Trust property manager Richard Neale said the reason why Sir Edward never finished the path was something of a mystery.
		The second is a continuation of the new footpath along the farm trail on a two-mile circuit.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/uk_news/wales/north_west/3200176.stm (348 words)

	Subterranea Britannica: Sites: Channel Tunnel - 1880 attempt
		In 1880 under the direction of Sir Edward Watkin, Chairman of the South Eastern Railway, a new shaft (No. 1 shaft) was sunk at Abbot's Cliff, between Dover and Folkestone with a horizontal gallery being driven along the cliff, 10 feet above the high water mark.
		Sir Edward Watkin applied to the government for public funds to complete the 11 mile section to meet the French mid channel.
		To counteract this fear Sir Edward conducted a series of visits to the tunnel inviting prominent businessmen including the Lord Mayor of London, the visit culminated in luncheon in a chamber cut into the side of the heading.
	www.subbrit.org.uk /sb-sites/sites/c/channel_tunnel_1880_attempt/index.shtml (898 words)

	History of Shotton- CHAPTER 10
		Nothing as large as this had been built in Britain and it was difficult to convince investors that the project could succeed.
		It was at this point that Henry Robertson and Benjamin Piercy of the Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway Company approached the Chairman of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company, Sir Edward Watkin, Bart., M.P., to discuss the need for a bridge.
		Watkin was a powerful and influential railway magnate at that time, and the W,M and CQ Rail Co. hoped to induce him to promote an Act of Parliament for a railway to be built from Chester, Northgate, crossing a bridge over the Dee, and connecting to the W,M and CQ lines from Buckley.
	www.angelfire.com /fl/shotton/history10.html (1339 words)

	CNNSI.com - Soccer - Bulldozers finally start pulling down Wembley - Monday September 30, 2002 10:57 AM
		However, the replacement of a venue which cost 750,000 pounds to build in the early 1920s by one costing more than 750 million, is only the latest chapter in a Wembley story that is already 110 years old.
		Edward Watkin, chairman of London's Metropolitan's Railway, was ultimately to be disappointed as only the first stage was ever completed and within a few years of its 1896 opening, the tower had fallen into neglect, before later being demolished.
		From the ashes, the Empire Stadium rose nearly 20 years later as the centrepiece of the British Empire Exhibition, opened by King George V in 1924.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/news/2002/09/30/wembley_demolition (837 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Watkins' Tower in London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1891 work construction of Watkin's Tower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watkins%27_Tower) in London begun.
		Edward Watkin was the brain child, he picked the design and even tried (unsuccessfully) to get Eiffel to be the projects engineer!
		Only the section shown in the photo above was ever built, known as Watkins folly it remained there for some 16 years before it was demolished.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /printthread.php?t=214089 (199 words)

	Background - Secret history of Wembley
		During a trip to the Exhibition of France in 1889, Sir Edward Watkin, Chairman of the Metropolitan Railway and one of the first to push the idea of a channel tunnel, became greatly impressed with the newly built Eiffel Tower, which stood at over 894 feet high.
		Sir Watkin surrounded his incomplete tower with pleasure gardens featuring sports grounds, tea pagodas, bandstands and a lake.
		Maintenance was neglected and around 1902 the Wembley Tower was declared unsafe and closed to the public, confirming its reputation and nickname 'Watkins Folly'.
	www.brent.gov.uk /wembley.nsf/24878f4b00d4f0f68025663c006c7944/7c509a3efc89512280256a41005d4c7a!OpenDocument (438 words)

	Body (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was masterminded by Sir Edward Watkin, one of the great transport entrepreneurs of the Victorian era.
		The opposition came principally from the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (L.M.S.) and the London and North Eastern Railway (L.N.E.R.) which were already well established in the centre of England.
		The argument successfully advanced by Sir Edward Watkin was that his new railway system would link the capital with some of the great new industrial centres of the north.
	dyne.members.beeb.net /wilwell-100-years.htm (1866 words)

	Watkins Family History Society - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Our steadfast pursuit is to assist in connecting as many Watkins people as possible world-wide.
		We invite you to read, share and make new connections with other Watkins researchers with the help of the resources that we make available here.
		Included are FREE downloads of our Digital Newsletter, Family Tree Project, as well as a Message Board which is a good places to introduce yourself to our world-wide group of searchers.
	www.watkins.net.au (79 words)

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