Claim: Alexander Brogden, the second son of the railway contractor John Brogden, got into the same business in 1846.
Evidence: Alexander Brogden was born in Manchester on 3 November 1825, the second son of John Brogden (1798 – 1869) and educated at Blackburn, New College Manchester and King's College London, where he read mathematics. Railway contractor, iron and coal master He joined his father's contracting business, John Brogden and Sons, in 1846.