Dixon, W. Hepworth, an English writer and journalist, born in Manchester; called to the bar, but devoted himself to literary work; wrote Lives of Howard, Penn, Robert Blake, and Lord Bacon, “New America,” “Spiritual Wives,” &c.; was editor of the Athenoeum from 1853 to 1869; died suddenly (1821-1879).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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