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    Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet (26 September 1819 – 13 April 1901) was a British Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur. He was an ambitious...
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    Park to the north of the city, led by the railway entrepreneur Sir Edward Watkin. Marketed as the "Great Tower of London", it was designed to surpass...
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  • Edward Watkin may refer to: Edward Watkin (1819–1901), a railway chairman and politician. Edward Watkin, nephew of the above, railway manager of the Hull...
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  • Lawrence Edward Watkin (December 9, 1901 – December 16, 1981) was an American writer and film producer. He was known primarily as a scriptwriter for a...
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  • Edward Watkins may refer to: Ed Watkins, baseball player Eddie Watkins, dual-code rugby player Edward Watkins (rugby union), see List of Wales national...
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  • Watkin, English footballer Billy Watkin, English footballer Cyril Watkin, English footballer Edward Watkin, Victorian railway chairman Edward Watkin (disambiguation)...
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  • and telegraph lines along the way. Written and produced by Lawrence Edward Watkin and directed by Francis D. Lyon, the 85-minute full-color film also...
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  • the 1942 novel Marty Markham by Lawrence Edward Watkin. The shows' success led to a reprinting of Watkin's novel in 1956 and the Spin and Marty comic...
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    Templeton Kavanagh. Directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Lawrence Edward Watkin, the film stars Albert Sharpe as O'Gill alongside Janet Munro, Sean...
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    ISBN 978-1-349-01879-6. Retrieved 13 May 2018. Greaves, John (Summer 2007). "Sir Edward Watkin and the Liberal Cause in the Nineteenth Century" (PDF). Journal of Liberal...
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  • Flower. The 1953 Disney version was adapted for the screen by Lawrence Edward Watkin. The film was shot at Denham Film Studios and was the third of Disney's...
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  • and filmed in Buckinghamshire, England. It was written by Lawrence Edward Watkin and directed by Ken Annakin. It is the second of Disney's complete live-action...
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  • Edward Ingram Watkin (27 September 1888 - 1981) was an English Catholic philosopher, pacifist and writer. He studied at St Paul's School, London and New...
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  • has had deeded to him. The film's title song was written by Lawrence Edward Watkin, Paul J. Smith and Hazel "Gil" George. The film premiered in Harrisburg...
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  • is used as a derogatory term for a personal injury lawyer. In 1881, Edward Watkin of the South Eastern Railway (England) complained about attorneys who...
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  • Osborn's 1938 Broadway hit play. The play, based on a novel by Lawrence Edward Watkin, has been revived twice on Broadway since its original run. The story...
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  • Watkins is an English and Welsh surname derived as a patronymic from Watkin, in turn a diminutive of the name Watt (also Wat), a popular Middle English...
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    Hill upon his father Edward Watkin's death in 1901, and the title became extinct upon his own death in 1914. During his life, Watkin was a Deputy Lieutenant...
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    19th-century Victorian villa. It is most notable as the home of Sir Edward Watkin, "railway king and cross-channel visionary", and in the late 20th century...
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    Reddish South; and part of Cheadle East & Cheadle Hulme North. Edward William Watkin was a railway entrepreneur, who helped to fund and plan lines across...
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    became the location of development in the 1890s after being sold to Edward Watkin and the Metropolitan Railway cutting through the area. Wembley Park...
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    and then chairman, was Edward Watkin, a dynamic leader who sometimes allowed personal vanity to drive his priorities. Watkin was determined that the...
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    Snowdon (redirect from Watkin Path)
    and has the steepest overall gradient. It was first conceived by Sir Edward Watkin, a railway owner who had attempted to build a railway tunnel under the...
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    cross-Channel railway tunnel. In 1881, British railway entrepreneur Sir Edward Watkin and Alexandre Lavalley, a French Suez Canal contractor, were in the...
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    Absalom Watkin (1787–1861), was an English social and political reformer, an anti corn law campaigner, and a member of Manchester's Little Circle that...
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    Mickey Mouse Club. Based on the 1942 novel Marty Markham by Lawrence Edward Watkin, Disney adapted the novel into a serial, with the working title The...
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  • Theatrical release poster Directed by Byron Haskin Written by Lawrence Edward Watkin Based on Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Produced by Walt...
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    enquiry into the 1819 Peterloo Massacre. His son, Sir Edward Watkin (1819–1901), who became Lord Watkin of Rose Hill, was a Victorian railway magnate. He...
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    Baronet (1940–2023) Charles Edward Watkin Williams-Wynn, 12th Baronet (born 1970). Williams baronets Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1904), Complete Baronetage...
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    during the Victorian period. It was built by the railway entrepreneur Edward Watkin with the aim to run as a fast trunk route from the North and the East...
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