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George Shillibeer (born in St Marylebone, London August 11, 1797, died August 21, 1866 in Brighton, England). The son of Abraham and Elizabeth Shillibeer. Christened in St Marys Church, St Marylebone on 22 October, 1797, Shillibeer worked for the coach company Hatchetts in Long Acre, the coach-building district of the capital. In the 1820s he was offered work in Paris, France where he was commissioned to build some unusually large horse-drawn coaches of "novel design". The aim was to design a coach capable of transporting a whole group of people, perhaps two dozen, at a time.

Shillibeer's design worked, and was very stable. It was introduced into the streets of Paris in 1827. Shortly afterwards, Shillibeer built another for a private Quaker school in Stoke Newington near London; this with a total of twenty-five seats, and which entered history as the first school bus. In 1827 Joseph Pearse, a Quaker visitor to the girl's school at Fleetwood House, Abney Park which was supported by the Quaker scientist and philanthropist William Allen, wrote in verse about the school bus:
The straight path of Truth the dear Girls keep their feet in,
And ah! it would do your heart good Cousin Anne,
To see them arriving at Gracechurch Street Meeting,
All snugly packed up, 25 in a van.
Whilst in Paris, Shillibeer concluded that operating similar vehicles in London, but for the fare-paying public with multiple stops, would be a paying enterprise, so he returned to his native city. His first London "Omnibus" took up service on July 4 1829 on the route between Paddington (The Yorkshire Stingo) and "Bank" (Bank of England) via the "New Road" (now Marylebone Rd), Somers Town and City Rd. Four services were provided in each direction daily. This service was described in the first advertisements as being "upon the Parisian mode" and that "a person of great respectabilty attended his vehicle as Conductor". An account of the new service was given in the Morning Post of July 7 1829,

Saturday the new vehicle, called the Omnibus, commenced running from Paddington to the City, and excited considerable notice, both from the novel form of the carriage, and the elegance with which it is fitted out. It is capable of accommodating 16 or 18 persons, all inside, and we apprehend it would be almost impossible to make it overturn, owing to the great width of the carriage. It was drawn by three beautiful bays abreast, after the French fashion. The Omnibus is a handsome machine, in the shape of a van. The width the horses occupy will render the vehicle rather inconvenient to be turned or driven through some of the streets of London.


A less successful innovation was his "Funeral Omnibus" which combined a passenger vehicle with a hearse.

George Shillibeer died in 1866 on August 21 (some sources say August 22), and is buried in the church graveyard at Chigwell in Essex.

In 1979, the 150th anniversary of the commencement of the first omnibus service in London, a memorial service was held at the Chigwell Church attended by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

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