. Jubilee memorial of the railway system, a history of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and a record of its results . ough the yet undiscovered deep oftime. Jonathan Backhouse was essentially an originalman. Few subjects of biography could present greaterattractions on that account. But as the race is notalways to the swift, so it happens, alas ! too often, that themen who have most deserved to live in the memory andgratitude of their fellows and of posterity are allowed todrop out of remembrance, because no effort has been madeto perpetuate their achievements and character. The pre-sent me
. Jubilee memorial of the railway system, a history of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and a record of its results . ough the yet undiscovered deep oftime. Jonathan Backhouse was essentially an originalman. Few subjects of biography could present greaterattractions on that account. But as the race is notalways to the swift, so it happens, alas ! too often, that themen who have most deserved to live in the memory andgratitude of their fellows and of posterity are allowed todrop out of remembrance, because no effort has been madeto perpetuate their achievements and character. The pre-sent memoir will, it is hoped, be a means of repairing ahitherto inexcusable blank in biographical literature, andof securing a meed of due justice to the conduct and charac-ter of a man whose lifelong career pointed a moral of thebest kind, and served to remind us that we can make ourlives sublime. The Backhouse family have for many years occupied aleading position in Darlington, both socially and commerci-ally. With the remote antecedents of the family we do notcare to deal. For all practical purposes, their modern his-. CB/tP/za^^y^ ^J^ay?^/^, V%^^- His Views on the Railway. 209 tory may be said to date from 1774, when Mr JonathanBackhouse, the elder, founded the Darhngton Bank. Thisvenerable gentleman, who died on the nth of November1826, in the eightieth year of his age, was the father of thesubject of this memoir. Of the career of the latter we have little knowledge pre-vious to his taking an active part in the affairs of the pro-jected Stockton and Darlington Railway. He took muchinterest as a young man in both agriculture and 1813 the Society of Arts presented him with a silvermedal as an acknowledgment of his services to agriculturein planting 271,000 larches on waste grounds of which hewas the proprietor. Allusion has already been made in another place to theadvocacy of the Stockton and Darlington Railway by MrBackhouse, and to the fact that he was originally
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