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Arthur Heywood

British engineer and 3rd Baronet (1849-1916)

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Also known as Arthur Percival Heywood, Sir Arthur Percival Heywood, 3rd Bt.

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Occupation: engineer, locomotive designer
Position held: High Sheriff of Derbyshire
Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born: December 25, 1849
Died: April 19, 1916

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Sir Arthur Percival Heywood, 3rd Baronet (25 December 1849 – 19 April 1916) is best known today as the innovator of the fifteen inch minimum gauge railway, for estate use. Early life He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Percival Heywood and grew up in the family home of Dove Leys at Denstone in Staffordshire. Dove Leys looked over the valley where the North Staffordshire Railway from Rocester to Ashbourne ran. The family travelled by train to their relatives in Manchester and on holiday to Inveran in the Highland region of Scotland. Heywood developed a passion for the railway from an early age.

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