George Stephenson, with his work on the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, paved the way for the railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son Robert, his assistant Joseph Locke who went on to carry out much work on his own account and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

The technicians who maintain the Stockton section of the road have been persuaded by a radical social theory, Functionalism, that their role in maintaining the nation's transport infrastructure is more important than that of any other workers and that they should therefore be in control.

Born in Philadelphia, Stockton was the son of a prominent Methodist minister who discouraged him from a writing career.

The 1st Earl was succeeded instead by his grandson, Maurice's son, Alexander, Lord Macmillan, who became the 2nd Earl of Stockton.

Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny, who outranked both Stockton and Frémont, had orders from President Polk and secretary of war William L. Marcy to serve as military governor.

Her character, Vanessa Lutz, is a poor girl living in Los Angeles, who, on the way to her grandmother's home in Stockton, encounters a freeway serial killer.

However, the Admiralty disapproved of the invention, which led to the fortunate contact with the encouraging American captain Robert Stockton who had Ericsson design a propeller steamer for him and invited him to bring his invention to the United States of America, as it would supposedly be more welcomed in that place.

Elizabeth Stockton would become the wife of her neighbor, William Whiteside, in 1740 William and Elizabeth ’ s branch of the family were known as the “ Stockton Whitesides .” Thomas Whiteside, who had come to America from Ireland with his brother William Sr. also moved to Goochland County, Virginia.

The town was named in honor of U. S. Senator Robert Field Stockton, who was instrumental in the creation of the Delaware and Raritan Canal.

The town is named after Richard Stockton, who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Timothy Hackworth ( 22 December 1786 – 7 July 1850 ) was a steam locomotive engineer who lived in Shildon, County Durham, England and was the first locomotive superintendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

In the 1980 semi-final, the youngest competitor, Ted Stockton, ( a taxi driver, aged 25 ) started 56 seconds after the only female semi finalist who was 33.

He was the cousin of writer-illustrator David Hunter Strother ( who would also serve as a Union Army general ) and his maternal grandfather was Richard Stockton, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.

" Common report, moreover, may be attributed to Judge Stockton some of the exploits of a distant cousin, Major Richard Stockton an obnoxious Tory, who did take Howe's protection and went over to the British until he was captured in Feb.

Richard Stockton ( April 17, 1764March 7, 1828 ) was a lawyer who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate and later served in the United States House of Representatives.

His son was the naval officer Commodore Robert F. Stockton, who defeated the Mexican army in 1846 and became the first military governor of the State of California, and later became a Senator from New Jersey like his father before him.

They were recorded at Louder Than You Think, the home studio of Stockton local and former hippie Gary Young who also played drums on the recordings.

Yarm is part of the Stockton South Parliamentary Constituency which is represented in the House of Commons by James Wharton ( Conservative ), who was elected on 6 May 2010 for Stockton South.

This freed Commodore Robert F. Stockton, who had taken over by July 21, 1846, Pacific Squadron's Marines and sailors to go on to do other activities.

Johns escaped from the car of a man who drove her and her infant daughter around the area between Stockton and Patterson for approximately 1½ hours.

Like his predecessor Lt. Robert Stockton, who in 1821 established the site for Monrovia by " persuading " a local chief referred to as " King Peter " to sell Cape Montserado ( or Mesurado ) by pointing a pistol at his head, Ashmun was prepared to use force to extend the colony's territory.

Stockton had sailed into harbor with two American warships and laid claim to Monterey for the United States.

A Mexican courier was captured en route to Sonora, Mexico carrying letters to General Jose Castro that reported a Mexican revolt that had retaken California from Commodore Stockton.

All the coastal cities were back under Mexican control except San Diego, where the Mexicans had Stockton pinned down and under siege.

( Note: The only other passenger railway in the world at that time, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, had an average speed of only about.

A private funeral was held on 5 January 1987 at St Giles ' Church, Horsted Keynes, West Sussex, where Lord Stockton had regularly worshipped and read the lesson.

The Stockton and Darlington had two inclined sections powered by cable.

The relations between Ericsson and Stockton had grown tense over time and, approching the completion of the ship, Stockton began working to force Ericsson out of the project.

Stockton attempted to deflect the blame onto Ericsson, with moderate success, despite the fact Ericsson's gun was sound and it was Stockton's gun that had failed.

The Stockton Borough School had an enrollment of 38 students as of the 2009-10 school year.

In the early years of the settlement pioneer merchants H. P. Stockton and John G. Leveridge had operated a banking business in the back of Leveridge's General Store ; by 1907 they had organized the Union State Bank.

However, all locomotives built to date, including those for the Stockton and Darlington, had been intended for slow freight, with any passenger service handled by single horse-drawn coaches.

The experience on the Stockton and Darlington Railway was well-publicised, and a section of the Hetton colliery railway had been converted to cable haulage.

Stockton had the honor of personally presenting to King George III an address of the trustees of the College of New Jersey, acknowledging the repeal of the Stamp Act, and his address was favorably received by the king.

In 1768, Stockton had his first taste of government service when he was elevated to a seat in the royal legislative judiciary, and executive council of New Jersey ; he was later ( 1774 ) appointed to the provincial New Jersey Supreme Court.

The day Stockton was captured, General William Howe had written a Proclamation offering protection papers and a full and free pardon to those willing to remain in peaceable obedience to the King.

In Princeton a rumor started by Mr. Cochran, a Tory, claiming Stockton had taken General Howe's protection caused Stockton to be spoken against for a short time, but " Mr Cochran's known quarrel with him makes it very doubtful to candid persons " Rev.

Stockton and his wife had six children, four daughters and two sons: Julia Stockton ( married to Benjamin Rush, also a signer of the Declaration ), Mary, Susan, Richard, Lucius and Abigail.

However, since the 1960s, hereditary peerages have generally been eschewed, and life peerages have been preferred, although in 1984 Harold Macmillan was created Earl of Stockton.

Since the 1980s, and much like Manhattan's Little Italy, due to a decrease in immigration from Italy and gentrification, the neighborhood has seen its native Italian American population rapidly shrink, while neighboring Chinatown has been rapidly expanding north into the neighborhood east of Broadway and along Stockton Street causing a major demographic shift to a mix of mostly Chinese and young professional population, although some, albeit very few, Italian Americans remain.

There has long been a movement in the area to preserve a " greenbelt " as a buffer zone between Lodi and Stockton in order to keep the two cities separate.

Hackworth is believed to have been influential in the development of the first Stephenson locomotive intended for the Stockton and Darlington Railway during his time at the Forth Street factory.

The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey has been ranked in tier 1 among the nation ’ s top public colleges and universities in the 2010 survey of America's Best Colleges.

In the past, Stockton had been classified as a national liberal arts college, but because U. S. News & World Report revised the categories early in 2007, it resulted in placements in a different category for a number of institutions, including Stockton.

Today the roles have been reversed and Norton has been demoted to a part of Stockton.

This road has been numbered the A135 ( and named ' 1825 Way ' in commemoration of the Stockton and Darlington Railway ), replacing the old A135 route which was previously the A19.

The master plan has been drawn up by environmental design specialists Gillespies, the eventual aim being to bring distinctive high-quality city-scale assets to the centre of the Tees Valley, including the town centres of Stockton and Middlesbrough.

Stockton Cricket Club was established in 1816, and has been located at the Grangefield Cricket Ground, Grangefield since 1891.

Since her defeat in 2005, she has recently been attempting to re-enter the Commons, seeking the Labour Party nomination and being shortlisted in the ' safe ' Labour seats of Stockton North, Houghton & Sunderland South, Wigan, and Stalybridge & Hyde but has not been selected for any of them, despite the support of the Labour-affiliated Unite union.

Stockton has been an adjunct to the San Francisco Bay Area, which was a major military production and transit area during WWII.

Unlike the Sacramento River, the San Joaquin River has never been navigable much past Stockton.

Since 1988, much of the centre of Stockton Heath has been designated a conservation area to preserve its character-see http :// www. warrington. gov. uk / Images / 11_St_Heath_tcm31-3129. pdf-but at the same time, there has been redevelopment work with several new bars and restaurants moving into the centre of Stockton Heath.

Although the name Stockton Heath appears to have been conferred on the village at a later date ( indeed the area itself has been described rather as " a hamlet of little consequence and no development until the 19th century "), many secondary references state that a family bearing the name Stockton lived in the area from the end of the 13th century until at least the end of the 15th.