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Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, KCMG, LLD, FRSE (15 July 1817 – 20 November 1898) was an English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways and railway infrastructure. In the 1850s and 1860s, he was engineer for the world's first underground railway, London's Metropolitan Railway , built by the " cut-and-cover " method under city streets.
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Daniel Gooch, 1st baronet was born in 1816 at Bedlington. He was the first locomotive superintendant of the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1837 and worked under Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He established the company’s locomotive works at Swindon. He played an important role in ordering Stephenson 2-2-2 ‘Star’ class locomotives from Robert ...
Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet (born Aug. 24, 1816, Bedlington, Northumberland, Eng.—died Oct. 15, 1889, near Windsor, Berkshire) was an English railway pioneer and mechanical engineer who laid the first successful transatlantic cables. After working under the pioneer railroad builders George and Robert Stephenson, Gooch was appointed, in 1837 ...
Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet (21 October 1681 – 17 December 1751) born in Yarmouth, England; died in London; served as Governor of Virginia from 1727 through 1749. Technically, Gooch only had the title Royal Lieutenant Governor, but the nominal governor, Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle , was in England and did not exercise much authority.
See biography by P. S. Flippin (1926). Sir William Gooch (gōōch), 1681–1751, colonial governor of Virginia (1727–49), b. Yarmouth, England. He came to Virginia after distinguished service with the British army. Nominally, Gooch was only lieutenant governor, but he was in fact the real chief executive in the colony for 22 years.
Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet (21 October 1681 – 17 December 1751) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Virginia from 1727 to 1749. Technically, Gooch only held the title of Royal Lieutenant Governor, but the nominal governors, Lord Orkney and Lord Albemarle , were in England and did not exercise much authority.
