biography
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| lived:
| (1808–92)
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| biography:
| Railway excursion and tourist pioneer, born in Melbourne, Derbyshire, C England, UK. He became a Baptist missionary in 1828. In 1841 he arranged an excursion railway trip between Leicester and Loughborough to attend a temperance meeting, and this later became a regular event. In the 1860s he became an agent for the sale of travel tickets, and built up the business of Thomas Cook & Son. |
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