English: George Stephenson, near to Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Great Britain.
The great railway engineer is buried in Chesterfield, his son Robert was also a famous railway engineer. <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephenson" rel="nofollow"external free">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephenson">Link</a><img style="padding-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/>
He lived from the 9th of June 1781 to the 12th of August 1848.
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