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Also Known As underground • métro • tube • underground railway

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Baker, Sir Benjamin
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Sir John Fowler, engraving by Thomas Oldham Barlow, 1868, after a portrait by Sir John Everett Millais; in the Science Museum, London.
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Sir John Hawkshaw.
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