BRASSEY

THOMAS, 5. 1805, d. 18%, cake | vas a Cheshire farmer's son. At the the} when the earliest railways were being rake, | made in England. he practised asa railway ous¢;engineer and contractor. In 1847 he sally | began the construction of the Great ther} Northern Railway, end afterwards Bis e of} contracts extended to France and other European countries, He constructed the agh, Grand Trank Railway in Canada, aad undertook contracts in. Australia mid — ne He ee “> enormous fortune. s bd in| Stafford; was the eldest son of the above [s. 79]