churchward

noun 1adv 1name 1

Definitions

noun

1

Obsolete form of churchwarden.

adv

1

Towards a church.

name

1

A surname originating as an occupation.

In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from Waterloo to Padstow, and between Swindon and Eastleigh there was a great gulf fixed.

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