William Hemingway Mills

Chief engineer of the Great Northern Railway Company from 1876 until 1910. William Hemingway Mills was born in Yorkshire in 1834 and in 1850 became a pupil of William Henry Barlow. After working on railways in Scotland, Andalucia and Mexico, he was appointed chief engineer of the Great Northern Railway in 1876, a position which he held until his retirement in 1910.