Title

'The Railway Interest', 1875. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini

Caption

'The Railway Interest', 1875. Edward William Watkin (1819-1901), English railway promoter and politician. Known as The Second Railway King, among his railway interests were directorships on the Great Eastern Railway and the Great Western Railway, and Chairman of the South Eastern Railway, the Metropolitan Railway and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. Elected MP for Stockport (1864-1868) and for Hythe, Kent, (1874-1895). Knighted in 1868 and created Baronet in 1880. Cartoon from Vanity Fair. (London, 6 November 1875).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1875

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B66_262

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

49,9Mb (1,3Mb) / 10,8in x 17,9in / 3244 x 5380 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation people male man men railways politics guy British color colour Victorian century Britain politician 19th century sideburns MP nineteenth century sideboards statesman Oxford Science Archive member of parliament Edward William Watkin caricature portrait chromolithograph Edward William Carlo Pellegrini Ape Watkin Pellegrini Carlo chromolithograph portrait caricature