L. T. C. Rolt

Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt was a prolific English writer and the biographer of major civil engineering figures including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Telford. He is also regarded as one of the pioneers of the leisure cruising industry on Britains inland waterways, and as an enthusiast for both vintage cars and heritage railways.

Tom Rolt was born in Chester to a line of Rolts dedicated to hunting and procreation. His father Lionel had settled back in England in HayonWye after working on a cattle station in Australia, a plantation in India, and joining in the Yukon gold rush of 1898. However Lionel Rolt lost most of his money in 1920 after investing his capital in a company which failed, and the family moved to a pair of stone cottages in Stanley Pontlarge in Gloucestershire.

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