Driver was born in Finsbury Park, London, the daughter of Gaynor Churchward ( née Millington ), a designer and former couture model, and Ronnie Driver, a Welsh businessman and financial adviser from Swansea.

This concept was popularized and expanded by James Churchward, who asserted that Mu was once located in the Pacific.

Mu, as a lost Pacific Ocean continent, was later popularised by James Churchward ( 1851 – 1936 ) in a series of books, beginning with Lost Continent of Mu, the Motherland of Man ( 1926 ), re-edited later as The Lost Continent Mu ( 1931 ).

Churchward claimed that " more than fifty years ago ," while he was a soldier in India, he befriended a high-ranking temple priest who showed him a set of ancient " sunburnt " clay tablets, supposedly in a long lost " Naga-Maya language " which only two other people in India could read.

Churchward gave a vivid description of Mu as the home of an advanced civilization, the Naacal, which flourished between 50, 000 and 12, 000 years ago, was dominated by a “ white race ," and was " superior in many respects to our own " At the time of its demise, about 12, 000 years ago, Mu had 64, 000, 000 inhabitants and many large cities, and colonies in the other continents.

Churchward claimed that the landmass of Mu was located in the Pacific Ocean, and stretched east – west from the Marianas to Easter Island, and north – south from Hawaii to Mangaia.

Churchward claimed that Mu was the common origin of the great civilizations of Egypt, Greece, Central America, India, Burma and others, including Easter Island, and was in particular the source of ancient megalithic architecture.

Churchward claims the king of Mu was Ra and he relates this to the Egyptian god of the sun, Ra, and the Rapanui word for Sun, ra ’ a, which he incorrectly spells " raa.

Furthermore, while Churchward was correct in his claim that the island has no sandstone or sedimentary rocks, the point is moot because the pukao are all made of native volcanic scoria.

* Nan Madol was one of the sites James Churchward identified as being part of the lost continent of Mu, starting in his 1926 book The Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Man.

He retired from the post in 1902 and was replaced by George Jackson Churchward.

Dean was ill during his final years as Chief Locomotive Engineer, and he increasingly allowed Churchward to take on the day-to-day responsibilities.

George Jackson Churchward CBE ( January 31, 1857 – December 19, 1933 ) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) in the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1922.

Churchward was born in Stoke Gabriel, Devon, where his ancestors had been squires since 1457, and was educated at Totnes Grammar School.

The first class of locomotives with which Churchward won success and worldwide recognition was the 4-4-0 ' City ' class, which soon became one of the most famous class locomotives in the world at the time.

The locomotive was of the GWR Castle class, a successful design by Charles Collett and greatly influenced by Churchward.

Experiments had already been made for a 4-6-0 design while Dean was still in charge, and these continued under Churchward ; the first 4-6-0, number 100, appeared in 1902 as the initial prototype of what became the Saint class.

Chief Mechanical Engineer, G. J. Churchward believed, however, that the Schmidt type could be bettered, and design and testing of an indigenous Swindon type was undertaken, culminating in the Standard Type 3 in 1909.

William Dean was their designer, possibly with the collaboration of his assistant, George Jackson Churchward.

The key components were all proven but the combination was somewhat unhappy, and perhaps the least successful Churchward design.

** George Jackson Churchward, Great Western Railway chief mechanical engineer ( b. 1857 )

Churchward preferred locomotives without trailing wheels, to maximise adhesion on the South Devon banks of Dainton, Rattery and Hemerdon on the West of England mainline to Plymouth, then the Great Western ’ s most important route.

* January 31-George Jackson Churchward, Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of England 1902-1922 ( d. 1933 ).

Number 3440 City Of Truro is a Great Western Railway ( GWR ) 3700 ( or ' City ') Class 4-4-0 locomotive, designed by George Jackson Churchward and built at the GWR Swindon Works in 1903.

* December 19-George Jackson Churchward, former Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of England 1902-1922, is struck down by one of his own locomotives at Swindon ( born 1857 ).

* George Jackson Churchward ( 1857-1933 ), chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway

Like Churchward on the Great Western Railway Ivatt placed great importance on the boiler design.

The 1361 Class were designed by Harold Holcroft, the Great Western Railway's Chief Draughtsman, by adapting the 1392 Class, originally built in 1874 for the Cornwall Minerals Railway, to conform to George Jackson Churchward's standardisation policy ( Churchward was the Chief Mechanical Engineer ).

* Died: George Jackson Churchward, 76, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Britain's Great Western Railway ; Herbert Thacker Herr, 57, American mechanical engineer and inventor ; and Admiral Friedrich von Ingenohl, 76, commander of the High Seas Fleet of the German Imperial Navy during World War One

The class represented the penultimate stage in the development of the Southern Railway ’ s mogul " family ", which improved upon the basic principles established by GWR Chief Mechanical Engineer ( CME ) George Jackson Churchward for Great Western Railway ( GWR ) locomotives.

The platforms on which the statues rest ( ahu ) are described by Churchward as being “ platform-like accumulations of cut and dressed stone ,” which were supposedly left in their current positions “ awaiting shipment to some other part of the continent for the building of temples and palaces .” He also cites the pillars “ erected by the Māori of New Zealand ” as an example of this lost civilization ’ s handiwork.

On one occasion, the GWR's directors confronted Churchward, and demanded to know why the London and North Western Railway were able to build three 4-6-0 locomotives for the price of two of Churchward's " Stars ".

He followed this in 1970 with Witchcraft Ancient and Modern and Practical Candleburning Rituals, as well as a novel called Mu Revealed, a spoof on the works of James Churchward, using the pseudonym Tony Earll ( an anagram for ' not really ').

Churchward claimed that the ancient Egyptian sun-god Ra originated with the Mu ; he claimed that " Rah " was the word which the Naacals used for " sun " as well as for their god and rulers.

Churchward envisaged a range of locomotive classes which would be suitable for the majority of duties, and yet which would share a small number of standard components.

Churchward for heavy freight work.

* GWR Churchward 2800 Class 2-8-0 2857-nearing completion of its second overhaul since leaving Barry, at the Severn Valley Railway

George Jackson Churchward started his railway career in the South Devon Railway locomotive workshops at Newton Abbot.

Churchward is credited with introducing to Britain several refinements from American and French steam locomotive practice.

James Churchward ( February 27, 1851-January 4, 1936 ) is best known as a British born occult writer.

Geologically, the existence of Mu, as described by Churchward, is extremely unlikely, since the Andesite Line would run through the western parts of the continent.

Churchward is mentioned in fiction in the short stories Through the Gates of the Silver Key by H. P. Lovecraft and Out of the Aeons by Lovecraft and Hazel Heald.

In James Rollins ' novel " Deep Fathom ", Churchward is the great-grandfather of book character Karen Grace who takes part in revealing the mystery of Mu.

The long lost civilization of Muror, located on the legendary lost continent of Mu, is a mythic civilization invented by cultist James Churchward ( 1851-1936 ).