George Jackson Churchward

George Jackson Churchward CBE was Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway in the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1922.

Churchward was born in Stoke Gabriel, Devon, where his ancestors had been squires since 1457, and was educated at Totnes Grammar School. He apprenticed in the Newton Abbot works of the South Devon Railway and under Joseph Armstrong in the GWRs Swindon Works. At Swindon he rose from draughtsman through several positions, including Carriage Works Manager, and in 1897 was appointed Chief Assistant to William Dean. Afteryears as Chief Assistant, he succeeded Dean as Locomotive Superintendent.

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