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William Huskisson PC (11 March 1770 – 15 September 1830) was a British statesman, financier, and Member of Parliament for several constituencies, including Liverpool. [ 1 ] He is commonly known as the world's first widely reported railway passenger casualty as he was run over and fatally injured by Robert Stephenson 's pioneering locomotive ...
The 1830 Liverpool by-election took place on 30 November to elect one of Liverpool's two Members of Parliament (MPs) after the death of incumbent William Huskisson. Huskisson, who had died in a railway accident in September, was a Tory, as was fellow MP Isaac Gascoyne. Radical William Ewart defeated Whig Evelyn Denison. Both men's views were ...
One of those who got off was William Huskisson, former cabinet minister and Member of Parliament for Liverpool. Huskisson had been a highly influential figure in the creation of the British Empire and an architect of the doctrine of free trade , but had fallen out with Wellington in 1828 over the issue of parliamentary reform and had resigned ...
William Huskisson: Tory: Canning appointed to Crown office 17 February 1823: Berwick-upon-Tweed: Charles Bennet: Sir John Beresford, Bt: Charles Bennet ennobled 18 February 1823: Chichester: William Huskisson: Tory: William Stephen Poyntz: Huskisson appointed to Crown office 18 February 1823: Winchester: James Henry Leigh: Edward East: Leigh ...
The festivities of the opening day were marred when William Huskisson, the Member of Parliament for Liverpool, was killed. [17] The southern line was reserved for the special opening train, drawn by the locomotive Northumbrian conveying the Duke of Wellington , the Prime Minister, in an ornamental carriage, together with distinguished guests in ...
The borough returned several notable Members of Parliament including Prime Minister George Canning, William Huskisson, President of the Board of Trade, Banastre Tarleton, noted soldier in the American War of Independence and most notably, William Roscoe the abolitionist and Anti Slave Trade campaigner.
Sir William Grant resigned 1801 Barnstaple (seat 1/2) John Clevland: Barnstaple (seat 2/2) Richard Wilson I: Bath (seat 1/2) Lord John Thynne: Bath (seat 2/2) Sir Richard Pepper Arden – ennobled Replaced by John Palmer 1801 Beaumaris (seat 1/1) The Lord Newborough: Bedford (seat 1/2) Samuel Whitbread: Bedford (seat 2/2) William MacDowall Colhoun
Huskisson Memorial 1913. During the opening ceremony the MP William Huskisson was killed in an accident at the station. [5] A memorial to Huskisson was paid for by the railway and erected at the trackside in 1831. [6] The memorial has subsequently been granted listed building status and remains at the site of the original station near Newton-le ...