Francis Mewburn (First Solicitor of the S & D Railway)

Francis Mewburn of Darlington was the first Railway solicitor of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. George Markham Tweddell wrote about his authorship in Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham in 1872

Read it in the pdf file below. Click arrow to enlarge, read or download.

The chapter is also on my archive of  Joan Hackworth Weir's Archive of material relating to railway engineer Timothy Hackworth.
http://joanhackworthweircollection.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/francis-mewburn-s-d-solicitor-by-george.html

More related pages - Henry Heavisides (Stockton poet, printers, historian and musician's History of the First Public Railway 1912. http://joanhackworthweircollection.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/history-of-first-public-railway-m.html

Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive by Robert Young (The book on Railway Pioneer Timothy Hackworth) http://www.nrmfriends.org.uk/shop.html

George Markham Tweddell also mentions Francis Mewburn in his book
History of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and its branches - George Markham Tweddell 1869

You can read the book on line via this  page (you'll find a link on the page to the ebook) http://joanhackworthweircollection.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-history-of-stockton-and-darlington.html