Whalley: Mr. George Hammond, Assaults Mr. Gartside 107, 108.
Whitchurch 1, 69, 70, 75, 76, 78, 79, 91, 121, 133.
Whitchurch: Appeal against G. W. Railway Proposals 71.
Whitchurch: Royal Train to 127.
Whittington 71, 74.
Whixall Moss 76, 77, 78.
Williams: Mr. Abraham, of Aberdovey 86.
Williams: Alderman C. E., of Oswestry 94.
Williamson: Mr. Samuel 126, 135, 137.
Wrexham 2, 72, 74, 127, 129.
Wrexham: Protest Meeting at 124.
Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway 129.
Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway 107, 129.
Wynn: Colonel, M.P. 25, 27.
Wynn: Lady Watkin Williams 36, 38.
Wynn: Lady Watkin Williams, Presentation to 39.
Wynn: Sir Watkin Williams 27, 41, 43, 54.
Wynne: Mr. W. W. E., of Peniarth, Towyn 134.
Ynyslas 64, 65, 80, 82, 83.
Ynyslas: Bridge Attempted 80, 81.
Ynyslas: Failure as a Seaside Resort 64, 65.
Footnotes:
{2} The reader sufficiently interested in statistical details and
comparative tables will find further particulars concerning some of these
points in an appendix at the end of the book.
{4} An admirable sketch of the late Mr. Davies's career appeared from
the pen of an old friend in the "Barry Dock News" at the time of the
opening of the Barry Docks in July 1889 and was reprinted in summarised
form in his obituary notice in "Bye Gones," July 1890. Besides his
connection with the Cambrian, it gives details of his many other
activities, including his representation of Cardigan Boroughs in the
House of Commons from 1874 to 1885, and on the merging of the boroughs
into the county, at that date, for Cardiganshire till 1886, when he was
defeated on becoming an opponent of Mr. Gladstone's Irish policy; his
services on the Montgomery County Council, and his magnificent generosity
to the Calvinistic Methodist Churches and in aid of the cause of Welsh
higher education, a liberality which has since been continued in fullest
measure by his family.
{8} This phrase of Shirley Brooks's was probably applied rather to the
suspension bridge, which Telford planned to carry the London and Holyhead
road over the Straits, and which was opened on January 30th, 1826, but it
not less accurately describes Stephenson's famous railway tubular bridge,
begun in 1846 and completed in 1850, at a cost of about 600,000 pounds.
{16} See "Minutes of the proceedings of the Institute of Civil
Engineers," published June, 1889. He died on March 24th, 1888, having
been enga
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