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George Bidder
George Bidder, the son of a stonemason, was born at Moreton Hampstead in 1806. A talented mathematician, Bidder was educated at Edinburgh University, where he met Robert Stephenson. After a brief period working as a clerk for an insurance company, he became an engineer.
Bidder worked with Robert Stephenson on the London & Birmingham Railway. As chief engineer on the Norwich & Lowestoft line, Bidder became the first person to design and build a railway swing bridge. However, Bidder's most important work was the Victoria Docks in London.
Bidder was one of the founders of the Electric Telegraph Company (the first company formed to provide telegraphic communication). George Bidder died at Dartmouth on 20th September, 1878.

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