Posted by PeterH on June 13, 2006 at 12:42:11 from 86.130.122.107 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: Rainhill trials posted by Laurence Monkhouse on June 12, 2006 at 23:07:52:
didn't Ransome have a relation who attended Mr Huskisson when he was mortally wounded at the opening of the L & M?
Yes, AR's great grandfather was a surgeon in Manchester at the time. He was called to tend William Huskisson's injuries, along with three other surgeons. When they arrived at Eccles Vicarage, where Huskisson had been taken, they found him too ill to withstand an amputation. He died a few hours later. This was on Sept 15th 1830, the year after the Rainhill Trials.
Somewhere in the Tarboard archives, there is some discussion about this incident. The postings were made in, I think, 2002, after a book on the subject had been published - The Last Journey of William Huskisson, by Simon Garfield (Faber).