SOUTHERN RAILWAY GENERAL MANAGER

Son of James T. Missenden

  1. New Cross, London in 1886-d. Rudgwick, Horsham 1973

Son of a station master, he began working life as a junior railway clerk. He married Lilian Gent in 1912.  They would have no children.  By the 1920s he was London District Traffic Superintendent for SE&CR. In 1935, he headed a contingent of railway officials on a trip to New York. He rose to become General Manager of Southern Railway, and later first Chairman of the Railways Executive.

He’d been awarded an MBE in 1925, an OBE in 1937’s Coronation Honours, and Knighted in 1944.  Eustace even earned the honour of having a train named after him (1949 Pathe News). He died in 1973, aged 86.

Research and imagery:

Danny Coope / Street of Blue Plaques

http://streetofblueplaques.co.uk/