DEATH OF A RAILWAY MAGNATE.
[PBKSS ASSOCIATION.] (Received April 16, 10.6 a.m.) LONDON, 15th. April. Tho death is announced of Sir Edward Watkin, formerly Chairman of the SouthEastern and other railway companies, aged 82. [Sir Edward, who was formerly a "Manchester merchant, sat in two Parliaments for Yarmouth and Stockport, and represented Hythe continuously from 1874 to 1895. He promoted arid carried out'several important railway systems, and was the originator of a scheme' for a tunnel under tho English Channel, which was iactUally bCjgUn, but abandoned in. consequence of objections by the military authorities, ne was created a baronet in 1880, and was also a Knight of various foreign Orders.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 88, 16 April 1901, Page 5
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