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Auction: 19016 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World Timed Auction
Lot: 326

Great Britain: Midland Railway Company and George Hudson, a printed transfer certificate dated 185[4], for £100 Consolidated stock being sold by Railway King, George Hudson MP, to Richard Stubbs of Fishponds, handsigned by both parties andtheir witnesses. George Hudson, known as the Railway King, had been primarily responsible for the concept of a national railway system and by 1844 was in control of some 1000 miles of line. By 1849 his questionable financing began to unravel and he was forced out of the Chairmanship of the Midland Railway, Eastern Counties, York, Newcastle and Berwick and the York and North Midlands Railways. VF and a rare signature despite his varied interests.

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