34 Life and Times of " The Druid!' 



the age of eighteen he was placed by his 

 father in full charge of the Langthwaite Mills, 

 and thus his association with Warwick Bridge 

 began in 1807, and was continued until he 

 died there, nearly sixty years later. Through 

 early manhood, through middle and married 

 life, and through his long and gentle decline, 

 softened by the tenderness of his disposition, 

 and the affection with which he was uni- 

 versally regarded, he lived a virtuous and 

 unambitious life, dwelling among his own 

 people until at last he was borne to the 

 grave under the shadow of the church which 

 his own pious zeal had raised, and within 

 sight of the beautiful residence at Holme 

 Eden, which he had built for himself in 

 1840, on a "holme," or meadow, by the 

 banks of the river Eden. " This noble pile " 

 — says the " Handbook to Carlisle" — "is one 

 of the happiest modern efforts in the Tudor 

 or castellated manor house style, its architect 

 being the late Mr. W. C. Dobson, of New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne, who was also the architect 

 of St. Paul's Church, at Holme Eden, which 

 Mr. Dixon built and endowed with a sum of 

 ,£2,500, producing an income of £100 a year, 



