I love falling across little coincidences. Have just discovered one about William Huskisson, who was MP for Liverpool and president of the Board of Trade, and champion in Parliament for the Liverpool-Manchester Railway. Famously, also, the first man to be killed by a train – at the Rainhill Trials, when he was run over by Rocket.
The coincidence? His first seat in Parliament was as MP for Chichester in 1812 – which is the constituency in which I was born and bred (West Sussex).
Meaningless, but pleasing.
