109:, an engineer who had recently returned from India, where he had been a locomotive superintendent. Fairlie starting working at George England and Co. as a consulting engineer. He also began courting England's 17-year-old daughter Eliza Ann England. England disapproved of this relationship and forbade the couple from seeing each other. This prompted them to
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many years but could not marry her until his wife died. By a quirk of
English law, at that time, a child born out of wedlock was considered nobody's child. In law she was nothing to do with England and could marry whom she pleased. There was no case to answer and therefore a verdict of not guilty was returned.
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of 8 April 1862, caused much public interest. Under cross-examination by
Serjeant Ballantyne (who appeared for Fairlie), England was forced to admit that he had run away with his present wife (Sarah Hannar), the mother of Eliza, and that he had a wife living at that time. He had lived with this lady
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England retired from the business in 1869, with
Fairlie taking it over and renaming it the Fairlie Steam Engine and Carriage Company. After his retirement, England survived another decade until his death in 1878.
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where his patented screw jack and another 2-2-2 locomotive were shown; the locomotive won a gold medal. George
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