George Hudson Bentinck introduced a bill to build a railway network in Ireland. The cost of the proposal was £16 million which George Hudson, no doubt sensing an opportunity, supported. The government did not support the bill which was ultimately defeated. In the run up to the 1852 general election Hudson – who by this time was in severe financial difficulty – spoke on several issues including a repeal of a timber tax and on a corrupt practices bill. He was re-elected by 54 votes in the election but with his railway career in decline and drinking heavily he presented rather a
George Duckett (Calne MP) Duckett and John Dennis together wrote anti-Popery booklet called "Pope Alexander's Supremacy and Infallibility Examin'd." On 23 March 1711, he married Grace Skinner (c. 1690-1755). The couple had nine children, eight of whom survived to adult life. He died at home on his Calne estate in 1732. George Duckett (Calne MP) George Duckett (19 February 1684 – 6 October 1732) was a British Member of Parliament (MP), attorney, and literary combatant of Alexander Pope. The heir of a very rich Lord Mayor of London, Lionel Duckett (1511-1587), George Duckett was the son of Lionel Duckett, MP (1652-1693) and his wife