Glasgow , Paisley and Greenock Railway
Which employer did Mark Huish work for in late 1830s?
Mark Huish Captain Mark Huish ( 9 March 1808 – 18 January 1867 ) was an English railway manager . He is best known for his term as General Manager of the London & North Western Railway , a position he held for 12 years , beginning from the Companys formation in 1846 . Early life . Huish was born in Nottingham on 9 March 1808 , the son of Mark Huish and Elizabeth Gainsford . He was baptised in High Pavement Presbyterian Church on 6 April 1808 . His father , Mark Huish ( 1 March 1776 – 14 January 1833 ) was a deputy-lieutenant for Nottinghamshire . His mother , Elizabeth Gainsford ( d . 1824 ) , was the daughter of John Gainsford of Worksop . They married on 5 August 1799 . Military career . At age 16 he was sent to India to enter the service of the East India Company , where he joined the 67th regiment Bengal Native Infantry as an Ensign . Huish rose through the ranks and by 1834 , at the age of 26 , he became entitled to a 3-year leave which allowed him to return to England . While he was in England his promotion to captain was gazetted . For the rest of his life he always styled himself Captain Mark Huish . Business career . At this time Huish had to make a choice : either to return to India at the end of the leave , which would have committed him to a long period without the prospect of returning home , or to look for employment in another sphere . He had become interested in the possibility of working in railway management and applied for the position of Secretary to the newly formed Glasgow , Paisley and Greenock Railway . Huish was selected from amongst the more than 60 applicants and he began work in Glasgow on 24 November 1837 . He remained with the company until 7 July 1841 when he resigned on being offered the job of Secretary to the Grand Junction Railway company , a significant promotion . The Grand Junction Railway merged with the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway to become the London & North Western Railway . In October 1846 the Directors of the combined company appointed Huish General Manager at a salary of £2,000 p.a. ( ) , This was an incredibly high salary for the time . In 1851-52 a paper on Railway Accidents submitted to the Institution of Civil Engineers was awarded the Telford Medal in silver . Huish exerted a strong influence over the development of the Company , and he was responsible for several important developments in railway management and accounting practice which were taken up by other companies . However , his bullying style and arrogance meant that he made enemies . This management style coupled with increasingly difficult trading conditions brought about Huishs downfall . By 1858 his position had become untenable , and he resigned his situation with the London & North Western . Despite all he had done for the Company , and his contribution was certainly considerable , he received a pay-off of just 18 months salary , and a free pass for life . Significantly , he did not get a pension . After the London & North Western . In 1859 Huish was appointed deputy chairman of the London Pneumatic Despatch Company . Huish was also a director of the Isle of Wight Railway Company which was authorised in 1860 and which opened in 1864 . By this time Huish was living in Bonchurch in the South East of the Island . Huish died on the Isle of Wight on 18 January 1867 at the age of 58 . Huishs wife Margaret commissioned a memorial grotto to her husband which was constructed at eastern end of Bonchurch Pond , Bonchurch , Isle of Wight . The inscription records that following a successful business career he retired to the Island and in Mitchell Avenue , opposite the bowling green he built several houses . He also initiated the local geological collection .