George Jackson Churchward
English railway engineer and locomotive designer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Jackson Churchward was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway in the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1922. Early life Churchward was born at Rowes Farm, Stoke Gabriel, Devon, where his ancestors had been squires since 1457. He was the first son in a family of three sons and two daughters, brothers John and James and sisters Mary and Adelina . His father, George Churchward, a farmer, married his cousin, Adelina Mary, daughter of Thomas Churchward, of Paignton, Devon, a corn and cider merchant. He was educated at the King Edward VI Grammar School, contained within the Mansion House on Fore Street, Totnes, Devon. His father's cousin, Frederick Churchward, head of the family, arranged private tuition at Hill House during the school holidays.
