Frederick Attock

Frederick Attock (10 February 1846 – 21 May 1902) was Carriage Superintendent of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) and the first president of Newton Heath L&YR F.C., the club that later became Manchester United F.C. Biography Attock was born in Liverpool in 1846. His father George moved to up a new post in the Carriage and Wagon works of the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) at Stratford, Essex seemingly at some point in or before 1846. George, his wife Hephzibah and surviving children Martin, Mary Curtis, George and Frederick moved to 1 Angel Place, Leyton Road, near the Works. Elizabeth, Phoebe Ann and Caroline were born between 1847 and 1851 though Caroline died about aged two. Martin Atock, some 10 years older than Frederick, entered the employ of the ECR about 1848 and left to Ireland in 1861 in to take up positions of locomotive superintendent firstly at the Waterford and Limerick Railway and subsequently at the Midland Great Western Railway. Eastern Counties Railway George (junior) joined the ECR aged 14 in 1850. Frederick was apprenticed to his father in 1860, just before the ECR merged with smaller companies to become the Great Eastern Railway (GER) in 1862. George retired from ill-health as Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the GER in 1874 after 29 years of service, with Frederick taking his role and being responsible for about 2,000 carriages, 11,000 wagons, 600 road vans and 1,150 men.