Board Member – Joseph Cary

Joseph Cary

nnnn – 1874

Relationship with the Hatfield and St Albans Railway Company:

• The Minute Book records that he was one of four who attended the first Board meeting, on Thursday 11^th December 1862.
• The Minute book also records that he was elected Deputy-Chairman of the company at the third Board meeting, on 22^nd April 1863.
• His last Board meeting was that of 18^th March 1870, at which time he took the chair.

Life Highlights:

• Wife died before he did.
• Died on 15^th December 1874, at Quimper ,Finisterre, France.
• Probate granted on 10^th February 1875: effects under £2,000.
• Death reported in the company’s Minutes of 4^th February 1882.
• Amongst his directorships were:

1. The Victoria Railways – Geelong and Ballarat line (c1856) (Deputy-Chairman).
2. The Watford and Rickmansworth Railway (1860).
3. The Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway (never built).
4. The Rickmansworth, Amersham and Chesham Railway (never built).
5. The Greenwich & Woolwich Railway (c1860).
6. The Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway (c1861) (Chairman).
7. The Paris Land Company (Ltd) (c1861).
8. The Universal Private Telegraph Company (c1861).
9. The Hatfield & St Albans Railway (1862) (Deputy-Chairman).
10. The London and South of Ireland Direct Telegraph Company (Limited) (c1862).
11. The Eltham Valley Railway.

Homes included:

• 49 Pall Mall, St James’s, London.

Information gathered from:

• The Hatfield & St Albans Railway Company Minute Book.
• Wills Index.
• The Times Digital Archive.