Sir Daniel Gooch MP -- Windsor & Eton Railway Station, Windsor, Berkshire, UK
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The blue plaque for Sir Daniel Gooch MP, on the concourse of the Windsor & Eton Railway Station/Windsor Royal Shopping Centre in Windsor
Waymark Code: WMTB46
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/26/2016
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This blue plaque is near the Jo Malone kid's store at the Royal Shopping Centre in the Windsor & Eton Railway Station.
The plaque commemorates the contributons of Sir Daniel Gooch, MP, who rose from engineer to Chairman of the Great Western Railway (which built this station), and who coordinated the project to connect the United States and the UK by an undersea Atlantic telegraph cable.
The blue plaque reads as follows:
"Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
DANIEL GOOCH
Bart MP JP
1816-1889
Locomotive and Telegraphic Engineer
Chairman of the Great Western Railway
Lived at Clewer Park, Windsor
1859-1889"
More on Sir Daniel Gooch from the BBC: (
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"Plaque for Atlantic Cable Pioneer Daniel Gooch
15 October 2015
The pioneer who coordinated the connection of the United States and Great Britain by electric telegraph has been commemorated with a blue plaque.
Sir Daniel Gooch ran the project, which saw Isambard Kingdom Brunel's ship SS Great Eastern lay the seabed cable.
Sir Daniel, a locomotive engineer, worked for Brunel and became chairman of the Great Western Railway.
The plaque was unveiled earlier by the Mayor of Windsor and Maidenhead at Windsor & Eton Central station.
Mayor Eileen Quick said: "Before the age of the internet and telephones the telegraph was the fastest way to communicate.
"It could be said that Sir Daniel was a pioneer in bringing us the truly connected world we live in today."
Born in Bedlington, Northumberland in 1816, he died at his country estate near Windsor on 15 October 1889.
He was buried at the Church of St Andrew, Clewer."