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London, England, 1845-10-13 00:00:00

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.
By a Junction with the ERSIGIII Counties Railway at Bedford.
Distance, 120 miles.
Itapital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. Lord thmboyne
The Lord Stephen Chiet ester, Ormean, Belfast, and Army and Nary

Club, London
Sir Robert Alexander, Bart., Charles-street, Manchester-square
Sir 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 ()shorn, Bart., Earl's-court, Brompton
Sir John Key, Bart., Director of the Manchester and London, and of
the Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Captain Frederick Polhill, M.P. for Bedford
Director
Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
Major-General Thomas Morgan, Singleton-house, Torquay
Major-General Wright. Royal Engineers, Gloucester-Place, Portman-
sqagra
William A ckroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Otley, Dire the
East :Id West York, Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and feeds and
Co:: ', Railways
Thotas iexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Treat Valley Continuation Railways
Fnincls Sirnes Alliott, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Amber-
'Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction, and one of
the Frovibional Committee of the Nottingham and Gainsborough
Railway Companies
Ilenry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson-
hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railatay, and
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
C. 11. Aader.,on, 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, M.A., 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 Derby, 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
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, near Bradford, Director of the
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
Railway
Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford
James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge
and Lincoln, and Great Luxemburg Railway
John Blore, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Tean and Dove Vallee',
the Derby and Gainsboreugh, the Shropshire Mineral Railways, &c.
Job Bullivant, Esq., East Retford
William Butt, Esq., Sandiacre, Derbyshire
Robert Burton, Esq., merchant, Woodville, Notts
James Mullin, Esq , banker, West Field-house. Rugby, Director of
the Rugby and Huntingdon, 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
Amtier-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction

Railway
Jonathan Burton, Esq., merchant. Carrington ' N'ottinghamshire
Director of the Nottingham and Gainsboroughltailway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., magistrate, Hull, Director of the
Ru:,by, 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., Holmfield-house, near Ferrybridge
Millis Coventry, Esq., Director, of the South and Midland Junction,
and Birmingham Extension Railways
B. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western Ja-
maica Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainaborough, Director of the Manchester, Mid-
lanel, 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 Cotta. Esq., Little Bardfield-hall, near Braintree, Essex
James Clift, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasburg, Southampton,
Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, 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 inguetus Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Oakfield, 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, and Worcester Junction Railways
Joseph L. Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
John A Ileock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the
• Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, f 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
3latthew Dawson, Esq., Pontefract
William Dawson, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Peterborough,
Wisheach, 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, and
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
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Martin Funds., Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shef-
field Railway
John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London-
derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
William Fisher, Esq., Amcotts-house, near East Retford
James Fothergill, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Richard W.Fitzpatrick, Esq., barrister-at-law,Gloucester-road, Hyde-
park-gardens
George Green, Fsq., Pontefract
James Gilbertson, Esq., Alderman, and Magistrate for Hertford
William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow
11. 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
Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank-lodge, Halifax
John Gully, F.sq., Ackworth-park, Ackworth
William Gibbs, Esq.,Camberwell, Director of the South Metropolitan
Cemetery Company
William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Northumberland and Lancashire Railways
John Godber, Esq., Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, Director of
the Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction,
and Nottingham and Gainsborongh Railway Companies
Thomas John Green, Esq., Mayor of Bedford
Richard Hell, Esq., Carnarvon-hall-, Stratford, Director of the Strat-
ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways
R. E. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry
S. C. Hale Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash
Val'.ey Extension and West Midland Railways
W. 11. Halpin, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke, and Sheffield and Macclesfield Railways
Robert HMI, 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, East-street, Leeds, 'Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
Charles Holbrooke, Este Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester
John Howard, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford
Thomas Haigh, Esq., Wakefield, late High Constable of Wakefield
John II irdy, jun., Esq., banker, Grantham, Director of the Amber-
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and East_e_rn._Jordunction 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, Saundby, near Gains-
borough
George Hurst, Esq., Bedford
John Illidee, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Di—
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Wm. Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Director
of the York and Hall Railway
Bo well
tr MiddletonJalland,Holderness-housean , near Hull, Magis-
ate for the East Riding of York d Borough of Hull, and Di-
rector of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways
John Jameson, Esq., Honey lane-market
William Jameson. Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director 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 Tto-41nrild Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet
Valley.. nr Macclesfield and Lichfield
Greatsßaila
Jeremiah Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield and Gmsblyia,
liDfaxirect,
and
of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keighley,
II udiersfleld 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 Lay, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Direstor of
the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western
Jamaica Railway
P. Bennett Lucas,Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the Ips-
wich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale
Rail way
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Scottish
Western, and the Direct Western Railways
John Lart, Esq., Wood-street, Cheapside
James Lecming, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, and Keighley, Halifax 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-Trent, and Bedford-
', square, Hyda-park
Thomas M'Turk, Esq., Hull
William Mee, Esq., East Retford
R. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford
Robert Mellingten, Esq., Ordsall-house, near East Retford, Director
onflitahe Leeds and Carlisle Railway
W Moorhouse, Esq., Mariue-villa, Knottingley, a Provisional
Peter Dire Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, and Wakefield Railway
Morrison, Eery., Director of South and Midlands Junction, and
London and Birmingham Extension Railways
James Mnscroft, Esq., Pontefract, Magistrate for the Borough, a Pro-
visional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and
Chester Junction Railway
George Mackintosh, Esq., Upper Seymour street, Portman-square.
John Manwaring, Esq.. Pateley-bridge, Yorkshire, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Ord Massey, Esq., Hawker-house, Burnley, Director
ilowfatyh:e
Liverpool
,Liverpooland
and Leeds Direct, the Blackburn, Chorley, at
Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction
Thomas Micklethwaite, Esq., Wakefield
Charles Middleton, Esq.,'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., St. GeOrgB.B-SClttare, Westminster, and Moat-
house, BrentWoOd, Director of the Great Western Direct Rail-
way, firm,
Robert Nelfiaad, Este ReCePeoa-begee, Bedfordshire