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    Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 – 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible...
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    Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey GCB, TD, JP, DL (11 February 1836 – 23 February 1918), was a British Liberal Party politician, governor of the Colony...
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    Australia, Thomas Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey, eldest son of the railway magnate Thomas Brassey (1805-1870). He had already been created Baron Brassey, of Bulkeley...
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    Brassey was the second but eldest surviving son of Henry Brassey, third son of Thomas Brassey, and the nephew of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, and...
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  • building materials Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (1836–1918), British Liberal Party politician Thomas Brassey, 2nd Earl Brassey (1863–1919), editor...
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    Yacht Squadron. She was the yacht of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey until his death in 1918. His wife Anna Brassey wrote several popular books about their...
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    years editor or joint editor of Brassey's Naval Annual. Brassey was the only son of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, by his first wife Anna, daughter...
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    Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon, GBE, CI, DStJ (née Brassey; 24 March 1875 – 30 January 1960)[citation needed] was a daughter of Thomas Brassey, 1st...
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    underwent a number of title changes. The Annual was started by Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, in 1886. Though often compared with Jane's Fighting Ships...
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    she married the English Member of Parliament Thomas Brassey (knighted in 1881 and became Earl Brassey in 1886), with whom she lived near his Hastings...
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  • Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Willingdon (25 July 1898 – 19 March 1979), was a British Liberal Party politician and the second son of Freeman...
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    Imperial Idea in Canada. PhD thesis, University of Delaware. Thomas Brassey, 2nd Earl Brassey (1904). "Federal Government for the United Kingdom and the...
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  • heritage of the series name dates to the Brassey's Naval Annual, begun by Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, the Civil Lord of the Admiralty, in 1886...
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    Catsfield in East Sussex. The building of the house was initiated by Thomas Brassey, one of the leading railway builders of the nineteenth century. The...
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    Peto, Brassey and Betts was a civil engineering partnership between Samuel Morton Peto, Thomas Brassey and Edward Betts. They built a supply and casualty...
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    second son of the railway magnate Thomas Brassey (1805–1870) and a younger brother of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (1836–1918). His mother was Anna...
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    Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 – 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible...
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  • daughter of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, and Anna Allnutt (daughter of merchant John Allnutt). Her uncle was Thomas Brassey, 2nd Earl Brassey and her...
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    poll and married the Hon. Marie Brassey, the daughter of Thomas Brassey, then recently created Baron Brassey. Freeman-Thomas often cited her as a source of...
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    Victoria Governor   • 1851–1854 Charles La Trobe (first) • 1895–1900 Thomas Brassey (last) Legislature Parliament of Victoria History   • Established 1...
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    facilities and improved access to the station. A plaque commemorating Thomas Brassey is installed on the wall opposite the booking office. The station marks...
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    Thomas Brassey, Railway Builder, London: Frederick Muller, p. 38, ISBN 0-584-10305-0 Helps, Arthur (2006) [1872], The Life and Works of Mr Brassey, Stroud:...
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    The Brassey Institute at 13 Claremont in Hastings, England, was founded by Thomas Brassey in 1879 and, as the Brassey School of Science and Art, provided...
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  • Chief Engineer on the Grand Junction Railway (d. 1860). November 7 – Thomas Brassey, English railway contractor who supervised the construction of more...
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    Warr, and Muriel Agnes, daughter of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, eldest son of the railway engineer Thomas Brassey. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen...
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    opened in 1850. This section of the railway was designed by the engineer Thomas Brassey and was built by Pearce and Smith and John Jay. The name is taken from...
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    engineer was Robert Stephenson and the contractor for the work was Thomas Brassey. It was the absorption of this company that led the Grand Junction Railway...
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    of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The contractor for the work was Thomas Brassey. The original impetus was the need to provide London with a modern sewerage...
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    magnate Thomas Brassey (1805-1870) by his wife Maria Harrison, a daughter of Thomas Harrison of Liverpool. His elder brother was Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl...
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  • projects, they joined in partnership with Thomas Brassey and Thomas Crampton. In 1834, Peto and his cousin Thomas Grissell went into partnership as railway...
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