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Renowned as being the " Father of Railways ", the Victorians considered him a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement, with self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praising his achievements.
" Samuel Smiles stated that he was " the scion of a distinguished Béarnese family "; although it is probable that the poverty of his parents would have excluded him from a learned career if some of the leading Protestants of the district had not charged themselves with the expenses of his education, which was begun under M. Jean de la Placette, the minister of Nay, He studied at Puylaurens, the Academy of Saumur, and the Academy of Sedan, receiving the degree of doctor in theology, it is said, at the age of seventeen.
* The Life of Thomas Telford ; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain Samuel Smiles ( 1867 )
This system of achieving rotary motion was patented in his own name by James Watt in October 1781 although Samuel Smiles, biographer of Boulton and Watt, attributes this to Murdoch and there also exists a drawing of the sun and planet system in Murdoch's hand dated August 1781.
For some, George Combe's " Constitution, in the way that it advocated personal responsibility and the possibility of naturally sanctioned self-improvement through education or proper self-control, largely inaugurated the self-help movement ;" but it was Samuel Smiles ( 1812 – 1904 ) who published the first self-consciously personal-development " self-help " book — entitled Self-Help — in 1859.
On Holborn Approach ( formerly Institution Street ) is the Temperance Hall and Mechanics ' Institute which was opened by Samuel Smiles in 1851 as an alternative to local pubs for socialising.
His hard work as a proponent and founder of Ragged Schools led him to be quoted by Samuel Smiles in his famous book Self Help.
Following McGregor's resignation in 1854, there followed a decade of factionalism among the directors and equally poor management, described by Samuel Smiles the Company Secretary as ' not so much business as speech-making, that seemed to be the work of the Board.
One of his great-grandfathers was Samuel Smiles ; another was the marine engineer William Hartree, partner of John Penn.
Samuel Smiles described Pease as " a thoughtful and sagacious man, ready in resources, possessed of indomitable energy and perseverance.
* Samuel Smiles ( 1812 – 1904 )-social reformer and author of Self Help ( 1859 ), lived in the High Street.
Accordingly, Campbell left 1, 100 troops in Cawnpore for its defence, leading 600 cavalry, 3, 500 infantry and 42 guns to the Alambagh in what Samuel Smiles described as an example of the " women and children first " protocol being applied.
His old Whig principles fitted well with the Self-Help philosophy of another Murray author, Samuel Smiles, who had impressed Darwin.
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