ACWORTH SIR WILLIAM MITCHELL 1850-1925 KT

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  • Reference
    • GB 97 COLL MISC 0138
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1895
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • One volume

Scope and Content

Letters to Sir William Acworth, with tables, relating to the railway race to Aberdeen.

Administrative / Biographical History

Sir William Mitchell Acworth 1850-1925

Acworth was educated at Uppingham School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a member of London County Council 1889-1892, and a Unionist candidate fro Keighley Division of West Riding, 1906, 1910, 1911. Acworth was a member of many Royal Commissions and Committees on British Railways; Royal Commission of Enquiry into Canadian Railways (1916); S. Rhodesian Railways (1918); Chairman of Committee on Indian Railways 1921. He reported in Austrian Railways for the League of Nations; on German Railways for the Reparations Commission (1924). Acworth as a member of the Council of the Royal Economic Society and of the Institute of Transport, and was Director of the Underground Electric Railways of London Limited

His publications include:

  • Railways of England (1889)
  • Railways of Scotland (1890)
  • Railways and the Traders (1891)
  • Railway Economics (1905)
  • State Railway Ownership (1920)

Arrangement

One volume

Access Information

OPEN

Acquisition Information

Acworth, Lady

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Conditions Governing Use

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Geographical Names

Aberdeen, Scotland