Edward Watkin (other)
Edward Watkin may refer to: * Edward Watkin (1819–1901), a railway chairman and politician. *Edward Watkin, nephew of the above, railway manager of the Hull and Barnsley Railway *Edward Ingram Watkin (1888–1981), English writer See also *Edward Watkins (other) Edward Watkins may refer to: * Ed Watkins, baseball player * Eddie Watkins, dual-code rugby player * Edward Watkins (rugby union), see List of Wales national rugby union players *Edward Watkins, captain, see Josias Fendall Lieutenant-General ...

Edward Watkin
Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet (26 September 1819 – 13 April 1901) was a British Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur. He was an ambitious visionary, and presided over large-scale railway engineering projects to fulfil his business aspirations, eventually rising to become chairman of nine different British railway companies. Among his more notable projects were: his expansion of the Metropolitan Railway, part of today's London Underground; the construction of the Great Central Main Line, a purpose-built high-speed railway line; the creation of a pleasure garden with a partially constructed iron tower at Wembley; and a failed attempt to dig a Channel Tunnel under the English Channel to connect his railway empire to the French rail network. Early life Watkin was born in Salford, Lancashire, the son of wealthy cotton merchant Absalom Watkin,. After a private education, Watkin worked in his father's mill business. Watkin's father was closely involved in th ...
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Hull And Barnsley Railway
Hull may refer to: Structures * Chassis, of an armored fighting vehicle * Fuselage, of an aircraft * Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds * Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship * Submarine hull Mathematics * Affine hull, in affine geometry * Conical hull, in convex geometry * Convex hull, in convex geometry ** Carathéodory's theorem (convex hull) * Holomorphically convex hull, in complex analysis * Injective hull, of a module * Linear hull, another name for the linear span * Skolem hull, of mathematical logic Places England * Hull, the common name of Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire ** Hull City A.F.C., a football team ** Hull FC, rugby league club formed in 1865, based in the west of the city ** Hull Kingston Rovers (Hull KR), rugby league club formed in 1882, based in the east of the city ** Port of Hull ** University of Hull * River Hull, river in the East Riding of Yorkshire Canada * Hull, Quebec, a settlement opposite Ott ...
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Edward Ingram Watkin
Edward Ingram Watkin (27 September 1888 - 1981) was an English Catholic philosopher, pacifist and writer. Life He studied at St Paul's School, London and New College, Oxford. Joseph Pearce, ''Literary Converts'' (1999), p. 39. In 1908, Watkin became a convert to Catholicism. He publicly opposed conscription in 1916, a position he upheld in his 1939 pamphlet ''The Crime of Conscription''. In 1927, Watkin befriended the exiled Italian priest Don Luigi Sturzo, whose work Watkin would later publish in the '' Dublin Review''. Watkin's best known works were ''Philosophy of Mysticism'' (1920) and ''A Philosophy of Form'' (1938). He has been described as "one of the few non-Thomist Catholic philosophers of the early twentieth century." Pacifism Watkin was a pacifist and joined the pacifist organization The Guild of Pope's Peace in 1916 which promoted peaceful solutions to World War I.Brown, Stuart. (2005). ''The Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers, Volume 2''. Thoe ...
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