Lionel Speakman

Intro

     I wonder if Lionel realised that he had TURNBULL relations when he passed through NZ on one of his trips to/from Australia as London Manager of Dalgety & Co.?
By the 1930s however, his "cousin" (1st once removed) had already died.
The recent (Aug 2011) activity on this branch of the TURNBULLs was sparked by Ancestry.com advertising the inclusion of some railway records. This made me realise that I'd not researched what happened to some of Sir Robert TURNBULL's siblings and their families.
The SPEAKMANs in particular turned out to produce the usual mix of spinster school teachers, with a land agent following in his father's footsteps, a farmer in Western Australia "late of the Murchison goldfields", and Lionel.
It would appear that none of the family have any descendants, but it would be good to be proven wrong.²

BMDB data

     Lionel Speakman was born bet. Sep 1878 - Dec 1878 at Middlewich, Dist of Northwich, CHS, ENG.^3,4
     Lionel Speakman married Kate Barton bet. Jan 1909 - Mar 1909 reg. Dist of Strand, LND, ENG.^5,6
     Lionel Speakman died on 5 Jul 1948 reg. Dist of Kensington, LND, ENG; Obituaries, both published in Australia:
"OBITUARY
Dalgety and Co.
Mr. Lionel Speakman, a director of Dalgety and Co. Ltd., and a former general manager, died in London on Monday."
"Business Personal
Mr. Lionel Speakman, a member of the board of directors of Dalgety & Co., Ltd. has   died in London following an operation. He retired in December as general manager of the company, a position he had  held since 1930. Before that he was London manager of the company."^7,8,9,10

Migration

     Lionel Speakman and Kate Speakman are shown travelling on the "S.S. Niagara", Seattle, WA, USA, arriving 19 Sep 1924 passenger list shows SPEAKMAN: Lionel 46 railway officer (5'9" born Cheshire, ENG, dark complexion brown hair and eyes) & Kate 44 wife (5'5" b Staffordshire, ENG, fair complexion, brown hair blue eyes ); dep. Sydney, NSW; Last resid. London, England.¹¹
     Lionel Speakman is shown travelling on the "Oronsay", Fremantle, WA, AUS, arriving 22 Mar 1926 Mr. Lionel Speakman, the London manager of Dalgety and Co., Ltd., who is proceeding to Sydney, where he will stay for about six months. He said that the industrial prosperity of England was dependent mainly upon industrial peace, and everything at the present time seemed to hinge upon the outcome of the trouble threatened in the coal industry.
(this being a couple of months prior to his brother Robert's death in Leederville, WA).¹²
     Lionel Speakman and Kate Speakman are shown travelling on the "Adolph Woermann", Southampton, HAM, ENG, arriving 24 Aug 1932 passenger list shows SPEAKMAN: Lionel 54 "commercial" & Katie 52 housewife, dep. Zanzibar. UK address 6 Canning Pl, London; Both intended resid. England.¹³
     Lionel Speakman and Kate Speakman are shown travelling on the "S.S. Monterey", San Francisco, CA, USA, arriving 16 May 1939 SPEAKMAN: Ruth 63 home duties unm b Middlewich, ENG; Lionel 60 Dalgety's business manager b Middlewich, ENG; Katie 58 home duties b Rugeler, ENG; left Auckland 1 May 1939. All last perm. resid. London, ENG.⁵
     Lionel Speakman and Kate Speakman are shown travelling on the "Aquitania", Southampton, HAM, ENG, arriving 6 Jun 1939 SPEAKMAN: Ruth 63 no occ; Lionel 60 manager; Katie 58 housewife; from New York. UK address Terrace House, Roehampton, London, ENG; Last/intended resid. ENG.⁷

Census/Where lived/Occupations

     Lionel Speakman appeared on the census of 3 Apr 1881 on Stanthorne Hill, Stanthorne, CHS, ENG, in the household of Thomas Speakman as son of Thomas.¹⁴ Lionel Speakman appeared on the census of 1891 on London Rd, Knutsford, Par. of St Johns, CHS, ENG, as step son of Jane Graham Hamilton.⁴ Lionel Speakman was not found in the census of 1901 ENG not immediately obvious.¹⁵ He was Manager Furness Railway Co. (which was absorbed into the London Midland and Scottish Railway at midnight on the 31st December 1922) bet. 1918 - 1922.¹⁶ He was "DALGETY AND CO. LTD. General Manager Retires Dalgety and Co. Ltd. have received cabled advice that Mr. Lionel Speakman, who has been general manager of the company since 1930 will retire from the service on December 31. The Board has appointed Mr. Geoffrey Scott Hunter, who has been London manager since 1944, to succeed him from January 1, 1948. Mr. Speakman began life as a railwayman, being for 22 years in the service of the London and North western Railway Co. He was assistant district goods manager at Liverpool from 1902 to 1911 and for the next seven years was district or divisional goods officer at a number of large centres. From 1918 to 1922 he was general manager of the Furness Railway Co."
(NB his uncle was Sir Robert TURNBULL, Director of the LNWR. The Furness Railway Co. was absorbed into the London Midland and Scottish Railway at midnight on the 31st December 1922) on 31 Dec 1947.^16,17

Wills/bequests

     Lionel Speakman was confirmed as executor of the estate of Agnes Speakman on 7 Apr 1936 at London, LND, ENG; probate index shows Agnes SPEAKMAN as a spinster of Beresford House Upperton Rd Eastbourne d. 5 Dec 1935 at The Terrace House Roehampton Surrey Probate London 7 Apr to Lionel SPEAKMAN Company Manager Ruth SPEAKMAN spinster Effects £3879/15/10d.¹⁸

All the other info

     Lionel Speakman was mentioned in the death notice of Robert Percy Speakman on 18 Jun 1926 at Leederville, Perth, WA, AUS; Dth notice: SPEAKMAN.— On June 18, 1926, at his residence Robert Percy, the dearly beloved husband of Sarah Agnes Speakman and brother of Agnes and Ruth (England), and Lionel Speakman of Dalgety's (Sydney and London) aged 50 years Peace, perfect peace.
"Probates: Robert Percy Speakman, late of Leederville (died June 18, 1926) to Richard George Kelly, of West Perth."^14,19,20,21