The Life And Work of James Abernethy: Past President of the Institution of ...
The Life And Work of James Abernethy: Past President of the Institution of ...
John Scott Abernethy
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No little diplomacy was required, however, in successfully representing the scheme to the French Government, and the two English engineers who brought it forward, and made themselves professionally responsible for its design, were several times summoned to Paris between the years 1869 and 1872. In December, 1869, the late Right Hon. Ward Hunt, then First Lord of the Admiralty, who took much interest in the proposed scheme, accompanied by the 158 THE CHANNEL FERRY. two engineers, had a long inte...rview by appointment with the Emperor at the Tuileries. Ushered by an aide-de-camp through several apart- ments, the visitors found the Emperor in a small room, wearing a plain brown tweed suit and devoid of anything in the way of Orders. He at once rose to meet them as they entered, shook hands heartily, and requested his English guests to be seated at a small table with him. He listened to the proposed scheme with great interest, and after it had been represented to him, expressed his desire to do all in his power to support it.
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