• Earl Fitzwilliam's private railway near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, was constructed in order to link the Earl's coal interests to the southeast of his...
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    Fitzwilliam (1904–1979) Marquess of Rockingham Earl Fitzwilliam's private railway Viscount FitzWilliam, peerage of Ireland, an unrelated family. Debrett's...
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  • Earl Fitzwilliam's private railway station is a former private railway station in South Yorkshire, England, situated at the upper end of the Elsecar branch...
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    serve Earl Fitzwilliam's collieries and ironworks, which he leased out to local ironmasters. It opened in 1850 as part of the South Yorkshire Railway, known...
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    Huddersfield and Leeds. Elsecar Steam Railway Earl Fitzwilliam's private railway station Rockingham (South Yorkshire) railway station "Elsecar Park and Ride...
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  • Elsecar goods station (category Disused railway goods stations in Great Britain)
    containing Earl Fitzwilliam's private railway station and other warehouse facilities. The facilities were closed in the early 1970s. British Railways Sectional...
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    South Yorkshire Coke and Chemicals works and, from 1873 via Earl Fitzwilliam's private railway, his colliery interests. At the buffer stops end of the yard...
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    Revolution'". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 16 January 2023. "Earl Fitzwilliam's private railway station", Wikipedia, 2 December 2020, retrieved 16 January...
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    This is a list of railway stations which at some time have been private halts. It details the name of the railway station, its location, dates where known...
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  • The colliery closed in October 1983. Earl Fitzwilliam's private railway J Goodchild (2005), "The Earl Fitzwilliam’s Elsecar Colliery in the 1850s", British...
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  • Heritage Railway. It's expected that the section to Cortonwood will be re-opened at a later date as funding allows. Earl Fitzwilliam's private railway Hatfield...
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    the River Don, west of Tinsley. Earl Fitzwilliam's private railway Allan, Ian (2002). Sectional Maps of Britain's Railways. Ian Allan. ISBN 978-0-7110-2878-4...
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    the 18th century, the house was inherited by the Earls Fitzwilliam and the family of the last earl owned it until 1989. It now belongs to the Wentworth...
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    Peterborough, near Fitzwilliam's second seat at Milton Park. He could not get permission to build a car factory in Peterborough so the Earl suggested a move...
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    Midland Railway (which had not yet reached the area) and leased to the S&RR. It made an end-on connection with the Earl of Fitzwilliam's private railways. The...
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    Shillelagh branch line (category Railway lines opened in 1865)
    needed around 1860 to purchase lands from Earl Fitzwilliam. As part of those negotiations Lord Fitzwilliam hinted he desired a branch line to his home...
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  • D'Arcy Wentworth, or sought only to name and shame him. In March 1787, Fitzwilliam's patronage secured Wentworth a direction from the Home Office, to leave...
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    figures for 1834 included 10,452 tons of coal, which originated from Earl Fitzwilliam's colliery at Park Gate, and passed on to the Sheffield Canal. A system...
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    local landowners, particularly to Sir Francis Wood, and, less so, to Earl Fitzwilliam. Hemsworth was a one-industry town, where coal mining employed the...
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    are termed hôtel. For example, Lincoln's Inn was the town house of the 3rd Earl of Lincoln,[citation needed] and Gray's Inn was a manor held by the 1st Baron...
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  • (1804–1870), MP for Wycombe (1832–1837), Private Secretary to the Sovereign (1861–1870) Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey (1851–1917), MP for South Northumberland...
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    Cleveland, and to sell or exchange Parts of the same Estates. Viscount Fitzwilliam's Estate Act 1842 5 & 6 Vict. c. 23 16 July 1842 An Act for granting further...
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    construction of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, Lord Cloncurry was compensated with, among other things, a private railway bridge and harbour. Maretimo house...
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    Anthony, Neil Bissoondath, Vahni Capildeo, Merle Hodge, C. L. R. James, Earl Lovelace, Rabindranath Maharaj, Kenneth Ramchand and Samuel Selvon. Trinidad...
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    and by the British Museum. The Priory site to the north of the railway line is in private ownership, formerly occupied by a walled nursery and before that...
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    Wicklow and Wexford Railway, of which he was chairman. In 1866 he was seriously injured by a fall from his horse. He died at 2 Fitzwilliam Square East, Dublin...
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    Ogbourn Saint George, in the County of Wilts. Francis Foljambe's, Earl Fitzwilliam's and Lord Hawke's Estates Act 1792 32 Geo. 3. c. 27 11 June 1792 An...
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  • officio Lord Spiritual while Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002. Earl Cathcart was previously a member of the House from June 1999 until the House...
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    Lionel de Rothschild (category British railway entrepreneurs)
    United Kingdom. He co-founded the British Relief Association, the largest private provider of relief during the Great Irish and Highland Potato famines raising...
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    followers, particularly old Whig friends like the Duke of Portland, Earl Fitzwilliam and the Earl of Carlisle. Around July 1794 their fear of France outgrew their...
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