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George Walter (businessman)

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was close to completion, and the prospect existed that the London & Greenwich would be the first railway running into the metropolis. The capital position of the company was not healthy, however, and the raising of additional finance depressed the share price. In July 1837, Dottin and Walter
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as its editor. It was the first specialist railway periodical, and Walter used it to publicise the London & Greenwich, where Akerman was his replacement as secretary, and his other interests. In 1836 he sold it to
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J. E. C. Palmer (edited by H. W. Paar), Authority, idiosyncracy, and corruption in the early railway press, 1823–1844, Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, July 1995, pp. 442–457, at p.
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In 1831, Walter took the position of secretary of the London & Greenwich; in 1835, he became Resident Director (i.e. managing director). At that time, the
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Walter married twice, and had 12 children. They included Dottin Alleyne Walter (1834 -1891), an architect known also as an antiquarian.
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Walter was one of the founders of the Southampton and London Railway and Dock Company, in 1831, with
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from 1823 to 1828. In 1825 he was involved in the unrealised project of
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The Media and Financial Crises: Comparative and Historical Perspectives
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He was the second son of the Rev. Edward Newton Walter. He became a
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Opening of the Greenwich Railway [on 14th December, 1836]
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In 1844 Walter became manager of the company manufacturing
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Reminiscences of Newport ...Extra Illustrated. Edition D.
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Titanic 100th Anniversary Edition: A Night Remembered
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in October 1831 brought Walter into planning for the
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Steve Schifferes; Richard Roberts (27 August 2014).
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Index

George Walter (1790–1854)
Royal Marines
Napoleonic Wars
HMS Chatham
London Stock Exchange
Nicholas Wilcocks Cundy
ship canal
Abel Rous Dottin
Robert Johnston (1783–1839)
George Thomas Landmann
London and Greenwich Railway

London Bridge – Greenwich Railway Viaduct
London Bridge – Greenwich Railway Viaduct
Mechanics' Magazine
John Yonge Akerman
John Herapath
Kamptulicon
Prittlewell
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The History of Rochford Hundred
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The Navy List



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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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