Charles John Brandling

His father installed him at Middleton Lodge, about 4 miles south of Leeds, in 1802.

This young mining engineer was responsible for making a success of the next era of the mining business by inventing a rack and pinion system for the wagonway (a horse-drawn route of the mid-18th century) and commissioning what turned out to be the first commercially successful steam locomotive, designed and built by Matthew Murray, to transport the coals into Leeds on The Middleton Railway.

[2] His friend Earl Grey described him and his wife as "cordial in their manner, unaffected and extremely good-natured".

In 1817 he chaired the committee which established the reward to be paid to George Stephenson for the invention of the Geordie lamp.

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