Sir Daniel Gooch 1st Baronet (24 August 1816 – 15 October 1889) was an English railway and transatlantic cable engineer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1885. He was the first Superintendent of Locomotive Engines on the Great Western Railway from 1837 to 1864 and its Chairman from 1865 to 1889.
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birth date
1816-08-24
birth place
Northumberland, Bedlington
death date
1889-10-15
depiction description (caption)
Sir Daniel Gooch by Leslie Ward 1882
significant project
Great Western Railway, Transatlantic telegraph cable
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