Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Bt
(1816-1889), Railway pioneer and inventorSitter in 5 portraits
Railway engineer; appointed by Brunel locomotive superintendent of the Great Western Railway; designed the best locomotives of the period; in 1865 became Chairman of the GWR and rescued it from bankruptcy; severe and puritanical in character, but Brunel's closest supporter and friend.
by Sir Francis Grant
oil on canvas, 1872
NPG 5080
by Maull & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax46465
by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Richard Bentley & Son
carbon print, published 1888
NPG Ax5429
by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Richard Bentley & Son
carbon print, published 1888
NPG x16462
Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Bt ('Statesmen. No. 417.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 9 December 1882
NPG D44098
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