Inland Navigation
.Francis Egerton, Duke of Bridgewater, is called the Father of British Inlana Navigation. (1729–1803.) A title certainly due to James Brindley (1716–1772).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.