Beckford Junction was abandoned in 1940.

* Virginia and Carolina Coast Railroad: built 1885 to 1902 from Suffolk, Virginia south to Edenton and from Beckford Junction ( on the Suffolk-Edenton section ) to Elizabeth City ; originally built as the Suffolk and Carolina Railway and renamed in 1906 ).

This was further undermined by the ruling in Beckford v Hood, where the Court of King's Bench confirmed that, even without registration, copyright could be enforced against infringers.

Encouraged to study music by his father, he was sponsored as a young composer by Sir Peter Beckford, a wealthy Englishman who took him to England to advance his studies.

In 1774, Clementi was freed from his obligations to Peter Beckford.

William Beckford ( 19 December 1709 – 21 June 1770 ) was a well-known political figure in 18th century London, who twice held the office of Lord Mayor of London ( 1762 and 1769 ).

He was, and is, often referred to as " Alderman Beckford " to distinguish him from his son William Thomas Beckford, the author, art collector and builder of follies.

Beckford was born in Jamaica the grandson of Colonel Peter Beckford.

His only child by this marriage was William Thomas Beckford, born at Fonthill Splendens in 1760.

King George was reportedly more enraged by the breach of protocol than by the nature of the request, yet it attracted the support of the Common Councilmen of London who expressed their gratitude by erecting a monument in the Guildhall, London including a life-size statue of Beckford ( pictured ), surmounting a stone tablet on which the words Beckford had used to admonish the king are engraved in gold.

William Thomas Beckford ( 1 October 1760 – 2 May 1844 ), usually known as William Beckford, was an English novelist, a profligate and consummately knowledgeable art collector and patron of works of decorative art, a critic, travel writer and sometime politician, reputed at one stage in his life to be the richest commoner in England.

Beckford was born on 1 October 1760 in the family's London home at 22 Soho Square.

He was briefly trained in music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but his drawing master Alexander Cozens was a greater influence, and Beckford continued to correspond with him for some years until they fell out.

However, Beckford was bisexual and chose self-exile from British society when his letters to William Courtenay, later 9th Earl of Devon, were intercepted by the boy's uncle, who advertised the affair in the newspapers .. Courtenay was just ten years old on first meeting Beckford.

For many years Beckford was believed to have conducted a simultaneous affair with his cousin Peter's wife Louisa Pitt ( c. 1755-1791 ).

Beckford was discovered ( according to a houseguest at the time ) to be ' whipping Courtenay in some posture or another ' after finding a letter penned by Courtenay to another lover and subsequently chose self-exile to the continent in the company of his long-suffering wife ( who died in childbirth aged 24 ).

The loss of his Jamaican sugar plantation to James Beckford Wildman was particularly costly.

Though this is unlikely, the notion that he did so encouraged many later travellers to visit the place, including William Beckford, J. R. Cozens, William Wordsworth, Crabb Robinson, Frances Trollope, Mary Shelley and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

At the age of ten, he inherited a fortune from his father William Beckford, usually referred to as " Alderman Beckford ", who had been twice a Lord Mayor of the City of Londonconsisting of £ 1 million in cash (£ as of ),, land at Fonthill ( including the Palladian mansion Fonthill Splendens ) in Wiltshire, and several slave ( sugar ) plantations in Jamaica.

In 1765 Fox was forced to resign the Paymaster Generalship, and four years later a petition of the Livery of the City of London delivered by the Lord Mayor of London William Beckford against the Ministers referred to him as " the public defaulter of unaccounted millions ".

The Manchester United players Wes Brown and Danny Welbeck were both born in the area .. Two pairs of brothers from Longsight were Manchester City players — Dave and Gary Bennett, of Montgomery Road, and Jason and Darren Beckford, of Clitheroe Road.

In 1992, he was recruited to hip hop magazine The Source by a talent scout, Jeff Jones, who has been credited with ' discovering ' Beckford in New York City.

Gordon., " The counter-cult monitoring movement in historical perspective ," in Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker, edited by James A. Beckford & James T. Richardson, ( Routledge, London, 2003 ), pp. 102 – 113.

Eighteenth century Gothic horror drew on these sources in such works as Vathek ( 1786 ) by William Beckford, The Mysteries of Udolpho ( 1794 ) and The Italian ( 1796 ) by Ann Radcliffe and The Monk ( 1797 ) by Matthew Lewis.

He also drew up plans to attack French islands in the Caribbean the following year at the suggestion of a Jamaican sugar planter William Beckford.

In 1766, Sir Peter Beckford ( 1740 – 1811 ), a wealthy Englishman and cousin of the novelist William Thomas Beckford, twice Lord Mayor of London, visited Rome.

Beckford agreed to provide quarterly payments to sponsor the boy's musical education until he reached age 21.

Eriksson spent big in a bid for promotion in the summer of 2011, including multi-million pound transfer fees on Matt Mills and Jermaine Beckford.

Patrons who have influenced taste are also represented by works of art from their collections, these include: Horace Walpole ( a major influence on the Gothic Revival ), William Thomas Beckford and Thomas Hope.

There are also several primary schools in Hamilton, including, St Cuthbert's, Our Lady and St Anne's, St Elizabeth's St Peter's, St Paul's, St Mark's, St Ninian's, St Mary's, Glenlee, Townhill, Udston, Woodhead, Beckford, St John's, Woodside and Chatelherault Primary Schools.

* Tyson Beckford ( born 1970 ), male supermodel.

* Tyson Beckford ( born 1970 ), model.

Other ancestors include William Thomas Beckford, the scandalous 18th century English collector, tastemaker, writer, and eccentric.

Vathek ( 1786 ), by William Beckford, and The Monk ( 1796 ), by Matthew Lewis, were further notable early works in both the Gothic and horror genres.

* James A. Beckford and James T. ( Jim ) Richardson, eds., Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker ( London: Routledge, 2003 ).

" In a letter to Frank Belknap Long, Lovecraft ties this plot germ to Vathek, a novel by William Beckford about a supernatural caliph.

Goodwin was telegrapher for the `` American Telegraph Company '' and the `` Troy and Canada Junction Telegraph Company ''.

The original route structure was Line 1 Wimbledon to Elmers End, Line 2 Croydon to Beckenham Junction, and Line 3 Croydon to New Addington.

On 23 July 2006 the route network was restructured, with route 1 from Elmers End to Croydon, route 2 from Beckenham Junction to Croydon and route 3 from New Addington to Wimbledon.

Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colorado, the son of Maud ( née Tillery ) and Orus Bonham Trumbo, and his family moved to Grand Junction in 1908.

The book was controversial in Grand Junction and many people were unhappy with his portrayal.

The Sydney-Parramatta Line ran from Sydney terminus, just south from today's Central railway station to the Granville area which was originally known as ' Parramatta Junction '.

In 1880 Parramatta Junction was renamed to Granville, after the British Colonial Secretary, Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville.

Running initially between Bray and Howth, the Dublin Area Rapid Transit ( DART ) system was extended from Bray to Greystones in 2000 and further extended from Howth Junction to Malahide.

Originally the line was to extend to Kingsford but was finished at Bondi Junction due to a lack on money.

Edison's first telegraphy job away from Port Huron was at Stratford Junction, Ontario, on the Grand Trunk Railway.

New England Digital Corp. ( 1976 – 1993 ), founded originally in Norwich, Vermont and eventually relocated to White River Junction, Vermont, was best known for its signature product, the Synclavier Synthesizer System, which evolved into the Synclavier Digital Audio System or " Tapeless Studio.

The section of the main line between Brentford and Braunston ( formerly the Grand Junction Canal ), was built as a ' wide ' or ' broad ' canal-that is, its locks were wide enough to accommodate two narrowboats abreast ( side by side ) or a single wide barge up to 14 feet ( 4. 27 m ) in beam.

She was considered for the role of Billie Jo Bradley, on CBS's sitcom, Petticoat Junction but Ransohoff believed that she lacked confidence and the role was given to Jeannine Riley.

From Montrose, a line was laid north through Delta, reaching Grand Junction in March 1883, which completed a narrow gauge transcontinental link with the Rio Grande Western Railway to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Originally considered a secondary branch route to Grand Junction, the entire route from Leadville to Grand Junction was upgraded to standard gauge in 1890, and the original narrow gauge route via Marshall Pass became a secondary route.

The land was roughly bounded by Caroll Avenue to the Big Spring ( now Takoma Junction ) and what is now Woodland Avenue.

In February 1967 Operation Junction City was launched, it would be the largest operation the Coalition Force would assemble.

Glastonbury and Street railway station was the biggest station on the original Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway main line from Highbridge to Evercreech Junction until closed in 1966 under the Beeching axe.

Connection of the crossing to the M25 was completed on the northerly Essex side in 1981 ( Junction 31 ), and to the southerly Kent side in 1986 ( Junction 1a ).

The first railway line established in the city was the Bangalore – Mysore Junction metre gauge line, which was commissioned in 1882.