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Hudson, George [the Railway King] (1800–1871)  

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George Hudson [the Railway King] (1800–1871) by Sir Francis Grant, 1846 York City Art Gallery

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Hudson, George [called the Railway King] (1800–1871), railway promoter and fraudster  

Michael Reed

Hudson, George [called the Railway King] (1800–1871), railway promoter and fraudster, was born in March 1800 at Howsham, about 12 miles north-east of York, the fifth son of a farmer who died in 1806. He went to local schools and in 1815 was apprenticed to ...

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Johnson, Captain (1771/2–1839), smuggler and pilot  

J. K. Laughton

revised by J. Gilliland

Johnson, Captain (1771/2–1839), smuggler and pilot, was in 1798 captured in an affray with revenue officers on the Sussex coast and imprisoned in the new gaol in the Borough in London, from which he made his escape 'in a most daring way...