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CHAPTER II 



BIRTH AND PARENTAGE. 



ENRY HALL DIXON was 

 born in Cumberland on May 

 1 6, 1822, and was the second 

 son of Mr. Peter Dixon, a 

 large cotton manufacturer re- 

 siding at Warwick Bridge, near Carlisle. 

 In 1820, Mr. Peter Dixon, being then thirty- 

 one years old, married Miss Sarah Rebecca 

 Clarke, only daughter of General Tredway 

 Clarke, who for many years was the senior 

 General in the Honourable East India 

 Company's service. Mrs. Peter Dixon was 

 a woman of high intellectual attainments 

 and romantic disposition, which she imparted 

 to every member of her large family. What 

 Mr. Peter Dixon was will be revealed by 

 the following details, supplied to me in great 

 measure by members of his family. 



