William Chaplin (mai horar da shi)

William James Chaplin (1787-1859) ya kasance mai kula da kocin mataki wanda ya haɓaka babban kasuwancin kocin kafin isowar layin dogo. An kira shi "watakila mafi girman mai horar da kocin da ya taɓa rayuwa". Babban abokin hamayyarsa shine Edward Sherman .

Chaplin ya ga cewa layin dogo zai lalata cinikin kocin; saboda haka ya sauya saka hannun jari zuwa London da Southampton Railway (wanda daga baya ya canza sunansa zuwa London da Kudancin Yammacin Railway) kuma ya zama Mataimakin Shugaban a 1840. Ya zama Shugaban a 1843, mukamin da ya rike har zuwa 1858 (ban da wani lokaci tsakanin 1853 da 1854).

An zabe shi a matsayin memba na majalisar dokoki na Salisbury a zaben watan Janairun 1847. Ya riƙe kujerar a babban zaben a watan Yunin wannan shekarar, amma ya bar gidan a babban zaben na gaba a shekara ta 1857.
Garrison, Wendell Phillips; Garrison, Francis Jackson (1894). William Lloyd Garrison, 1805–1879: The Story of His Life Told by His Children. Houghton, Mifflin. p. 360. Archived from the original on 2022-06-24. Retrieved
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