Robert Benson Dockray
(1811-1871), Railway engineerSitter in 1 portrait
by Thomas Lewis Atkinson, printed by Dixon & Ross, after Henry Wyndham Phillips
mezzotint, mid 19th century
NPG D35335
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Anne Nichols
10 March 2019, 19:47
Robert Benson Dockray (1811-1871), railway engineer. 1835 Assistant Engineer, London & Birmingham Railway. 1840 Resident Engineer for the whole line of the railway. Retained this post on the amalgamation of the London & Birmingham into the London & Northwest system. Resigned 1852 on health grounds. His family were Quakers. He was the grandfather of war poet Laurence Binyon through Dockray's daughter Mary.