Thomas Cook (39 page)

10.
Cook,
Memoir of Samuel Deacon
.

11.
The wife of the former Baptist minister in Rome, Helen Crutch, has shared her research with me.

12.
Cook,
Memoir of Samuel Deacon
.

1.
Jerusalem
, compiled from material originally published in the
Encyclopaedia Judaica
(Jerusalem, Ketter Books, 1973).

2.
Now the Beit Immanuel Guest House, Youth Hostel and Museum.

3.
The handbook soon became a regular publication, and now, more than 130 years later,
Thomas Cook’s European Timetable
, still produced monthly, is a sought-after volume. A companion volume,
Thomas Cook’s Overseas Timetable
, is also published six times a year.

4.
Cook did not invent – nor did he claim to have invented – the circular note. The credit goes to Robert Herries, a London banker in the 1770s.

5.
Lee,
Aspects of British Political History
.

1.
The unpublished diary of George Jager,
Palestine and Egypt, 1875–80
, quoted in Shepherd,
The Zealous Intruders
.

2.
In 1881.

3.
Yehoshua Ben-Arieth,
Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century
.

4.
F.F. Fox (Melbourne Hall Agent) to Earl Cowper, 17 August 1874, Melbourne Hall archives, 260/5/25, supplied by Howard Usher, the archivist.

1.
Stanley Weintraub,
Charlotte and Lionel: A Rothschild Love Story
(New York, Simon & Schuster, 2003). Shares purchased at £19 soon rose to £34 and at their maximum in 1935 would be valued at £528. Rothschilds earned nearly £100,000 from the deal.

2.
Gertrude Himmelfarb,
Marriage and Morals among the Victorians
(London, Faber & Faber, 1986).

3.
Swinglehurst.

4.
1 November 1882.

5.
Brendon.

6.
Excursionist
, 1 November 1882.

7.
Gordon had resigned as governor-general of the Sudan in 1881.

8.
R.C.K. Ensor,
England, 1870–1914
(Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1936).

9.
J.A. Spender,
A Short History of Our Times
(London, Cassell, 1934).

10.
There had been atrocities in Bulgaria ten years earlier. (Robert Rhodes James,
The British Revolution: British Politics, 1880–1939
[London, Methuen, 1976]).

11.
Lytton Strachey,
Queen Victoria
(London, Chatto & Windus, 1921).

12.
Mingay,
Rural Life in Victorian England
.

13.
Now the headquarters of the Leicestershire branch of the British Red Cross. A blue plaque was unveiled in May 1978.

14.
Bishop to Budge, 1952 (Ingle).

15.
Ibid
.

1.
The Arts & Craft Movement was founded after an exhibition of that name in 1887.

2.
Swinglehurst.

3.
Seaton,
Thomas Cook
.

4.
Ingle’s research on Leicester.

5.
In 1937 it was scheduled as part of a slum area, and during the Second World War was used as a warehouse. In 1946 the charity commissioners offered it for sale for £4,000 and was acquired by the Corporation of Leicester (Pudney).

6.
The bust is in the custody of the Buckminister Road Baptist chapel, Leicester.

7.
Ingle.

8.
Cook,
Birthday Reminiscences
.

9.
Sattin,
Lifting the Veil
.

10.
Vesuvius erupted in 1903, destroying much of the railway, and again in 1906 and in 1929.

11.
The 1841 trip to Loughborough was the beginning of Thomas Cook’s venture into the travel world, but he did not set up the firm for another three years.

12.
The most respected of them all, George Adam Smith’s
Historical Geography of the Holy Land
, 13th edn (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1907).

13.
Cadbury’s did not start building the village of Bournville on the outskirts of Birmingham with its 143 cottages for another four years.

14.
G.R. Heath,
Thomas Cook of Melbourne
(Derbyshire, ‘Penn-gate’, 1981).

15.
April 1891 (Seaton,
Thomas Cook
).

16.
Mr Logan.

17.
Thomas Cook Archives.

18.
Seaton,
Thomas Cook
.

19.
Ibid
.

20.
Moore,
Ellis of Leicester: A Quaker Family’s Vocation
.

21.
David Cannadine,
Aspects of Aristocracy
(London, Penguin, 1994).

22.
Excursionist
, 15 June 1897, during the year of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee.

23.
The only future Liberal prime minister missing from the cabinet was David Lloyd George, who was then just a backbencher, having arrived in London in 1890 as the Liberal member for Caernarvon Boroughs.

24.
Thomas Cook Archives.

25.
Clement E. Stretton,
The Development Locomotive, a Popular History
(Newbury, Bracken Books, 1989).

26.
Sir Roy Strong,
The Story of Britain
(London, Hutchinson, 1996).

27.
The newly formed Birmingham University.

1.
Sue Seddon,
Travel
(Stroud, Sutton, 1991).

2.
Rae,
The Business of Travel
.

3.
Ibid
.

4.
Ben-Arieh,
Jerusalem
.

5.
In 1972 Thomas Cook & Son was purchased by a consortium headed by the Midland Bank. Twenty years later it was purchased by the German Westdeutsche Landesbank and the LTU Group.

6.
The grave was redone by Thomas Cook & Son.

Books

Brendon, Piers,
Thomas Cook: 150 Years of Popular Tourism
, London, Secker & Warburg, 1991

Budge, Thomas J.,
Melbourne Baptists
, London, Carey Kingsgate Press, 1951

Burns, A. Dawson,
Temperance History
, London, National Temperance Publication Depot, 1889

Cook, Thomas,
A Memoir of Samuel Deacon
, London, Thos. Cook, 1888

Ellis, I.C.,
Records of Nineteenth Century Leicester
, St Peter Port, self-published, 1935

Ferneyhough, F.,
The Liverpool & Manchester Railway, 1830–1980
, London, Robert Hale, 1980

Ingle, Robert,
Thomas Cook of Leicester
, Bangor, Headstart History, 1991

Leighton, William Henry,
A Cook’s Tour to the Holy Land in 1874
, London, Francis James, 1947

Patterson, A. Temple,
Radical Leicester
, Leicester, Leicester University College, 1954

Pudney, John,
The Thomas Cook Story
, London, Michael Joseph, 1953

Rae, W. Fraser,
The Business of Travel: A Fifty Years Record of Progress
, London, Thos. Cook & Son, 1891

Seaton, Derek,
The Local Legacy of Thomas Cook
, self-published in Botcheston, Leics, 1996

Stretton, Clement,
The History of the Midland Railway
, London, Methuen, 1901

Swinglehurst, Edmund,
Romantic Journey: The Story of Thomas Cook and Victorian Travel
, London, Pica Editions, 1974

——,
Cook’s Tours: The Story of Popular Travel
, Poole, Dorset, Blandford Press, 1982

Thomas, R.H.G.,
The Liverpool & Manchester Railway
, Newcastle upon Tyne, A. Reid, 1915

Williams, R.A.,
The London & S.W. Railway
, Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1968

Main Sources of Thomas Cook Quotations

Testimonial to Mr T Cook of Leicester
(September 1850)

‘Twenty-Six Years on the Rails’, appendix to
Cook’s Scottish Tourist Practical Directory
(1866, much of it reprinted from 1860)

‘Travelling Experiences’,
Leisure Hour
(1878)

A Retrospect of Forty Years
(July 1881)

Temperance Jubilee Celebrations at Leicester and Market Harborough
(November 1886)

‘My Own Memorial’,
Memorial Cottages
(May 1890)

Birthday Reminiscences
(November 1891)

Articles in over a hundred issues of the
Excursionist
(1851–78)

This book is about journeys and it has been a long journey, made possible with the help of dozens of people – everywhere from Britain to Jerusalem, from Rome to Australia. A bouquet of thanks goes to my sister, Margaret Morrissey, in Brisbane, who gave me daily assistance. I could never have pulled all the strands together without the patient help of Paul Smith, the archivist at the Cook Archives in Peterborough. Robert Ingle, who wrote an earlier biography, spared me much time in Leicester and in London, steering me through many complexities. Piers Brendon, who wrote a significant book on the firm Thomas Cook, also helped and gave me much insight, as did Edmund Swinglehurst, a former archivist at Thomas Cook. Harry Hastings, who made the BBC film in 1976, kindly lent me the script. In Melbourne itself I was helped by the Baptist minister, the Revd J. Birnie, Richard Heath and Howard Usher, the archivist at Melbourne Hall. In Rome, Father Alexander Lucie-Smith was tireless in following the footsteps of Cook, as was Dave Hodgdon, the Pastor of the Rome Baptist Church at Piazza Luciano, and his wife, Cathy. Nonstop emails full of history and guidance came from Helen Crutch, the wife of the former minister. In Jerusalem, while staying at the guest house attached to Christ Church in old Jerusalem, just near the Jaffa Gate, where Thomas Cook had his first office, I was helped by the Revd Neil Cohen and the untiring Kelvin Crombie and David Pileggi.

There is, alas, not room to list all the people who helped and guided me on this long trail, but special thanks also go to Jane Dorrell and Maureen Sherriff, who read through different versions of the manuscript; to Antonia Eliot, who runs the Ernest Cook Trust, and to Mavis Batey, George Carter, Joelle Fleming, Penny Hart, George Haynes, Caroline Lockhart, Elizabeth Muirhead, Tom Pocock, Miriam Rothschild, Ross Steele, Barry Tobin and Alan Ventress. I especially thank Guy Penman at the London Library, who gave me much help. As always, the happiest times while researching and writing this book have been in libraries or in bookshops. I am grateful to the State Library of New South Wales, the British Library in London, especially the staff in the Reading Room, where I spent weeks writing and researching, my local library, the Chelsea Library, the library at the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University and Brent Elliott at the Royal Horticultural Library.