Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
My comment on George Dixon was rather "off the cuff" while searching for mentions of the man himself. However as the title mentions the "school" then maybe it is not surprising that there is little mention. Elsewhere on the Forum there is the post by Dennis in “Great men and women of Birmingham.”
If you wish to find in depth information about George Dixon the book "Out of Birmingham: George Dixon (1820-98), Father of free education,” by James Dixon and written in 2013 is very good.
George Dixon could be linked to several threads on the Forum, and maybe deserves a thread of his own. He was involved in a very divisive time in politics around the introduction of the 1870 Education Act. The MP for The University of Cambridge talking of Birmingham... “a select committee of political Nonconformists, sitting somewhere in Birmingham...Birmingham, which knows so well how to make itself disagreeable, and if you do not act as our small political clique tells you, you will soon know the reason why.”
George Dixon
George Dixon 1820-1898 (and Sir Robert Dowling en passant) George Dixon, educational reformer, was born on the 1 July 1820 at Gomersal, near Bradford in Yorkshire. He was the son of Abraham Dixon of Whitehaven. Soon after his birth his father moved to Leeds and on the 26 January 1829...
birminghamhistory.co.uk
If you wish to find in depth information about George Dixon the book "Out of Birmingham: George Dixon (1820-98), Father of free education,” by James Dixon and written in 2013 is very good.
George Dixon could be linked to several threads on the Forum, and maybe deserves a thread of his own. He was involved in a very divisive time in politics around the introduction of the 1870 Education Act. The MP for The University of Cambridge talking of Birmingham... “a select committee of political Nonconformists, sitting somewhere in Birmingham...Birmingham, which knows so well how to make itself disagreeable, and if you do not act as our small political clique tells you, you will soon know the reason why.”
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