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London, England, 1845-10-16 00:00:00

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.
By a Junction with the East‘n Counties Railway at Bedford.
Distancer, 120 miles.
Capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
Pur-uant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne
The Lord Stephen Chid: ester. Ormeau, Belfast, and Army and Navy

Club, London
Sir Robert Alexander, Bart., Charles-street, Manchester-square
Air William Twisden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director
of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and
Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and of the
South and Midland Junction, and West Midlands Railways
Sir John Osborn, Bart., Earl's-court, Brompton
Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of London, Di-
rector of the Manchester and London, and of the Direct Liverpool
and Leeds Railway
Captain Frederick Polhill, M.P. for Bedford
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.11., Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
Major-General Thomas Morgan, Singleton-house, Torqnay
Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-place, Portman-
square
William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, °Bey, Director of the
East and West York, Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds and
Carlisle Railways
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways
Francis Simes Alliott, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Amber-
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction, and one of
the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham and Gainsborough
Railway Companies
Uenry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson-
hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
George Ashlin, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Newcastle-upon-
Tyne Railway
Richard Armitage, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director
of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keighley, Halifax and
Huddersfield Junction Railways
The Rev. Charles Edward Armstrong, MA., Hemsworth
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon-cottage, Bristol, Director of
the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Director of the Hull and Barnsley, and
Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-house, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derb37, Uttoxeter, and Stafford
Railways
William Banks, Esq , Honey-lane-market, Director of the Manches-
ter and Rugby Direct Railway, via Macclesfield
John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
William Fechney Black, Esq, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction
Railways
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's-park, Hampstead, Director of
the Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great
Grimsby Railway
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq.,the Lodge, Upper Clapton
Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle-house, Gomersall, near Leeds
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft-house. nvas san•-•"'ss' "` **—
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby
Railway
Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester
Runway
Joseph Browhe, Esq., Bedford
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln, and Gs eat Luxemburg Railway
John Blore, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley,
the Derby and Gainsborough, the Shropshire Mineral Railways, &c.
Job Bullivant, Esq., East Retford
William Butt, Esq., Sandiacre, Derbyshire
Robert Burton, Esq., merchant, Woodville, Notts
James Butlin, Esq., banker, West Field-house, Rugby, Director of
the Rugby and lluntingdon, and one of the Provisional Committee
of the Oxford and Birmingham Junction Railway Companies
Richard Biddle, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Birkin, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
John Fillingham Bishop, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Thomas Butt, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard Bradley, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
William Bradley, Esq., 'Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct
Western, and Isle of Ely and Lincolnshire Junction Railways
John Fowler Burbidge, Esq., Mayor of Grantham, Director of the
Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction
Railway
Jonathin Burton, Esq., merchant, Carrington, Nottinghamshire
Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., magistrate, Hull, Director of the
Rusty, Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London
John Carter, Esq., Knottingley
Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon-
tefract
Charles Charnock, Esq., Holinfield-house, near Ferrybridge
Millis Coventry; Esq., Director, of the South and Midland Junction,
and Birmingham ExtensiOn Railways
B. Clements, Esq., Lowndcs-square, Director of the Western Ja-
maica Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Manchester, Mid-
land:And Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Ax-
holme, and the Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction
Raiways
J. Cottam, Esq., East Retford
John Cutts, Esq., Little Bardfield-hall, near Braintree, Essex
James Clift, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasburg, Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford, and the 3lanchester, Rugby, and Mac-
clesfield Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Extension
Henry Sherrard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street
John Caunt, Esq., Nottingham
Thomas Mark Carter, Esq., Woodgreaves-house, near Wakefield, Di-
rector of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct
Railway
George Augustus Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Oakfleld, Donegal, and
15, Chesham-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the Grand Wales
Central, and London and Exeter Direct Railways
William Champion, Esq., Worksop
William Cheetham, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Nathan Cooper, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Francis Deere, Esq., Stratford, Essex
George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junc-
tion Railway
Joseph Dent, Esq., Ribston-hall, Wetherby, Magistrate for the
North-west Riding of Yorkshire
A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten-
sion, anti Worcester Junction Railways
oahnnd Manchester es erDixon,
Req., Joseph L. Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
Railwayßurnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct,
and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway
Matthew Dawson, Esq., Pontefract
William Dawson, Esq., 'Wakefield, Director of the Peterborough,
Wisbeach, Lynn, and Boston, and the Sheffield, Wortley, Silk-
stone, and Wakefield Railways
John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New-hall, by Neston, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Birmingham, Oxford, aid
Reading Railways
Henry Dunn, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Manchester, Hudders-
field, and Great Grimsby Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway
John Elliott, Esq., Townhead-house, Rochdale
Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc-
tor of the York and Lancaster Railway
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Ex-
tension Railway
Austin-friars, Chairman of the London-
eE,s4angcl Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Esq., Amcotts-house, near East Retford
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shef-
field Railway
John
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William Fisher,
James Fothergill, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard W.Fitzpatrick, Esq., barrister-at-law,Gloncester-road, layde-
park-gardens
George Green, Esq.,
James Gilbertson, Esq., Alderman, and Magistrate for Hertford •
William Gibson,
Req., Ely Bank-lodge, Halifax
H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside
William Gordon, Esq M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
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Ackwerthark, Ackworth
John
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William Gibbs, Esq., Camberwell, Director of the South Metropolitan
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William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Northumberland and Lancashire Railways
John Godber, Esq., Ilucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire. Director of
tahned Amber
-gate,
Thomas John Green, Esq., Mayor of Bedford
Richard Hall, Esq., Carnarvon-hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways
R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry
S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash
Valley
Extension and West Midland Railways
,IsTnodttGinagiihlsamboro,
W. 11. Halpin, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke, and Sheffield and Macclesfield Railways
Robert Hull, Esq., M.D., Norwich •
Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds
John George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western, and
the Metropolitan Junction Railways
William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieutenant and J.P.
for the West Riding of Yorkshire
John Mason Hepworth, Esq., Eden-place, Ackworth, J.P. for the
West Riding of Yorkshire
Joshua Hepworth, Esq. Rogerthorpe-hall, Badsworth
Thomas Heelis, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lanca-
shire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North
Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
John Holmes, Esq., East Retford
Robert Herries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, 'Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Charles Holbrooke, Esq. Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester
John Howard, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Thomas Haigh, Esq., Wakefield, late High Constable of Wakefield
John Hardy, jun., Esq., banker, Grantham, Director of the Amber-
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
John Harris, Esq., Springfield-house, near Bedford
Charles Higgins, sen., Esq., St. Cuthbert's, Bedford
Geerge Higgins, Esq., Bedford
The Rev. Charles Walter Hudson, Rectory, Sanndby, near Gains-
borough
George Hurst, Esq., Bedford
John 'Ridge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Di—
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
19m. Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Director
of the York and Hull Raiway
Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness-house, near Hull, Magis-
trate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and Di-
rector of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways
John Jameson, Esq.,Honey lane-market
William Jameson,Shelton, Staffordshire, Direcior of the
Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railways
Wm. Jones Johnson, Esq., Bedford
Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet
Valleys, or Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways
Jeremiah Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director
of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and KaiglilsY, Halifax, and
Huddersfield Junction Railways
George Kippax, Esq., Ordsall-villa, near East Retford
Mr. Samuel Knight, Pontefract
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchley's, Essex, Director of the Chepstow,
Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
H. C. Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square
Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London
Captain Henry Leech, Bedford
Charles Denton Leech, Esq., Bury St. Edmunds
William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western
Jamaica Railway
P. Bennett Lucas, E. Director of tSligo and Shannon, the
sale
Railway and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale
Railway
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Scottish
Western, and the Direct Western Railways
John Lart, Esq., Wood-street, Cheapside
James Leeming, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, and Keighley, Ilalifax and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Samuel Lovell, Esq., merchant, Bedford
Captain J. P. Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the
Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool, and Isle of Man Railways
John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Tront, and Bedford-
square, Hyda-park
Thomas M'Turk, Esq., Hull
William Mee, Esq., East Retford
W. It. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford
Robert Mellington, Esq., Ordsall-house, near East Rotfbrd, Director
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Moorhouse, Esq., Marine-villa, Knottingley, a Provisional
Director of the Sheffield, Barusley, and Wakefield Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of South and Midlands Junction, and
London and Birmingham Extension Railways
James hluscroft, Esq., Pontefract, Magistrate for the Borough, a Pro-
visional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and
Chester Junction Railway
George Mackintosh, r
—sq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square.
John 3fanwaring, Esq., Pateley-
bridge, Yorkshire, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Ord Massey, Esq., Hawkes-house, Burnley, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and
Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
rhomas Micklethwaite, Esq., Wakefield
;barks Middleton, Req., Nottingham.park
Joseph Nadin,. Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Joseph Nash, Esq., Bedford
John Norton, Esq., l, St. George's-square, Westminster, and Moat.
house, Brentwood, Director of the Great Western Direct Rail-
way, &c. •
Robert 3ewlansl. Esq., Kumpson-house, Bedibreishire
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