William Hepworth Dixon
1821–79
Historian, traveller, and journalist. Published lives of William Penn (1851), Robert Blake (1852), and Francis Bacon (1862). Editor of the Athenæum, 1853–69. Justice of the peace for Middlesex and Westminster, 1869. Member of the London School Board, 1869. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Geographical Society of London.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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