On railway matters he was a writer of
great skill, and all he wrote was enlivened with the happiest humour. To
the _Railway News_ he was a valued contributor, and in railway polemics a
master.
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The Director on the County Down with whom I became most intimate was the
Right Honourable (then Mr.) Thomas Andrews. He was brother to Judge
Andrews; brother-in-law of Lord Pirrie; became Chairman of the Company;
was made a Privy Councillor; a Deputy Lieutenant of Down; High Sheriff of
that County and President of this and that, for he was a man of ability
and character, but simple in mind and manners as the best men mostly are.
Eloquent in speech, warm-hearted and impulsive, he found it difficult to
resist a joke, even at the expense of his friend. In April, 1890, he
wrote me: "I hope you were not at all annoyed at my pleasantries to Mr.
Pinion. I am not exactly one of those men who would rather lose a friend
than a joke, but I find it hard to resist a joke when a good opportunity
presents itself. I am bound to say that I would be sorry to annoy you,
by a jest or in any other way.
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