George Stephenson, known as "the father of the railway", (PROSE: A History of Humankind) was an English inventor. (TV: The Mark of the Rani)
Stephenson was born in 1781. (PROSE: A History of Humankind) He lived in the village of Killingworth during the Industrial Revolution. (TV: The Mark of the Rani) He married three times (PROSE: The Time Lord Letters) and had a son named Robert. (PROSE: A History of Humankind) His third wife Ellen discovered a letter written to him from the Sixth Doctor after his death from pleurisy in August 1848. (PROSE: The Time Lord Letters)
As Amy Pond would recall, Stephenson's first steam locomotive went into service in 1814. (COMIC: The Doctor and the Nurse)