Alexander Brogden
(1825-1892)
British railway contractor, iron and coal master
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Alexander Brogden was born in Manchester on 3 November 1825, the second son of John Brogden (1798 – 1869) and educated at Blackburn, New College Manchester and King's College London, where he read mathematics. He married Anne Garstang on 6 September 1848 at Manchester Cathedral. He joined his father's contracting business, John Brogden and Sons, in 1846. He had intended to join the Bar but was persuaded to support his father instead. Among his first work for the firm was the supervision of contracts for the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway, the Ashton Branch of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway and the East Lancashire Railway.
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3 November 1825 Manchester, Lancashire, UK
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26 November 1892 (aged 67) Croydon, Surrey, UK
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| Zodiac | Scorpio |
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