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Mr. Ashbury, M.P. for Brighton, 1874. Creator: Unknown.
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Mr. Ashbury, M.P. for Brighton, 1874. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. W. and A. H. Fry. 'Mr. James Lloyd Ashbury is only son of the late Mr. John Ashbury, founder and proprietor of the great manufactory of railway rolling-stock at Openshaw [the Ashbury Railway-Carriage and Iron Company. Ashbury]... was at one time a director of the firm of Sir John Brown and Co., of Sheffield, the armour-plate manufacturers...also director of the Carnforth Iron Company, in Cumberland; the Norton Iron Company of Durham, the Brecon and Merthyr Railway, the Hereford and Brecon Railway...he still retains the office of chairman of the Denbigh, Ruthin, and Corwen Railway, director of the Smyrna and Cassaba Railway...Mr. Ashbury is a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. He takes much interest in scientific education, as he showed by a gift of £4000 to Owens College, Manchester...He built the famous Cambria, which in 1868 beat the American champion yacht Sappho...Mr. Ashbury then accepted the challenge of Mr. James Gordon Bennett, jun., of New York, to race his Dauntless across the Atlantic. The Cambria, after a stormy sail of twenty-three days, won this grand race by an hour and a half'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.
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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
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HRM25A33_074
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10,6Mo (614,4Ko) / 16,2cm x 16,4cm / 1912 x 1942 (300dpi)