Key Information<\/strong><\/h2>\nName:<\/strong>Peter Sydenham Dixon
DoB:\u00a0<\/strong>January 12 1883
Regt:<\/strong>Lieutenant Royal Sussex\u00a0
<\/strong>DoD:<\/strong>\u00a0August 7 1918
Academic Career: \u00a0<\/strong>CGS 1892 \u2013 1897.\u00a0Denstone College 1897-9, Solicitor 1906, in practice Hong Kong 1907-16
Other:\u00a0<\/strong>son of Francis P Dixon Esq., 7, Howard Terrace.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n \n \n\n \n ![\"PS](\"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PS-Dixon.gif\" "\\"PS")
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Peter and Arthur were the two youngest sons of Francis Peter and Jane Dixon. The family had been in cotton manufacturing for several generations, as Peter Dixon and Sons, Carlisle\u2019s huge tower still known as Dixon\u2019s Chimney was part of their mill. The family business had ceased to trade in 1883. Peter and Arthur\u2019s great grandfather another Peter had established a large family home at Holme Eden, in 1861 he was there with his family and they had a dozen servants living in! Both great grandsons lived there with a large extended family.<\/p>\n
The Dixon family were well known in Carlisle\u2019s political circles, their father was Mayor of Carlisle on four occasions, Peter\u2019s great-grandfather had also been Carlisle\u2019s mayor, his gt gt uncle had been High Sheriff of Cumberland and an M.P. Other members of the family \u00a0also held public office.<\/p>\n
Peter\u2019s gt grandfather was a devout Christian and he provided the land, and paid for the construction of\u00a0 St.Paul\u2019s Church at Holme Eden near Warwick Bridge, it was consecrated by the Bishop of Carlisle in 1845.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
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Peter unlike his two brothers Arthur and Francis, was not destined for the family business. After leaving Carlisle grammar school he went to Denstone College and by 1901 was articled as a solicitor\u2019s clerk, serving his articles with \u00a0Mr. C.B.Hodgson, Clerk of the Peace for Cumberland. He qualified as a solicitor in 1905 and went to Hong Kong.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
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With the outbreak of war in 1914 Peter joined the Hong Kong Volunteers and served with them for eighteen months, before returning to England. He enlisted at Chichester, West Sussex on June 27 1916, \u00a0he was given a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regt., and he made\u00a0 Lieutenant in 1917. He was described as 5ft 9\u2033 tall and he weighed 165lb. In the army his legal training was used in courts martial.\u00a0 He was killed near Albert in France in 1918. \u00a0His brother had been killed three years earlier.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
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DoB:\u00a0<\/strong>January 12 1883
Regt:<\/strong>Lieutenant Royal Sussex\u00a0
<\/strong>DoD:<\/strong>\u00a0August 7 1918
Academic Career: \u00a0<\/strong>CGS 1892 \u2013 1897.\u00a0Denstone College 1897-9, Solicitor 1906, in practice Hong Kong 1907-16
Other:\u00a0<\/strong>son of Francis P Dixon Esq., 7, Howard Terrace.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n
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Peter and Arthur were the two youngest sons of Francis Peter and Jane Dixon. The family had been in cotton manufacturing for several generations, as Peter Dixon and Sons, Carlisle\u2019s huge tower still known as Dixon\u2019s Chimney was part of their mill. The family business had ceased to trade in 1883. Peter and Arthur\u2019s great grandfather another Peter had established a large family home at Holme Eden, in 1861 he was there with his family and they had a dozen servants living in! Both great grandsons lived there with a large extended family.<\/p>\n
The Dixon family were well known in Carlisle\u2019s political circles, their father was Mayor of Carlisle on four occasions, Peter\u2019s great-grandfather had also been Carlisle\u2019s mayor, his gt gt uncle had been High Sheriff of Cumberland and an M.P. Other members of the family \u00a0also held public office.<\/p>\n
Peter\u2019s gt grandfather was a devout Christian and he provided the land, and paid for the construction of\u00a0 St.Paul\u2019s Church at Holme Eden near Warwick Bridge, it was consecrated by the Bishop of Carlisle in 1845.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
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Peter unlike his two brothers Arthur and Francis, was not destined for the family business. After leaving Carlisle grammar school he went to Denstone College and by 1901 was articled as a solicitor\u2019s clerk, serving his articles with \u00a0Mr. C.B.Hodgson, Clerk of the Peace for Cumberland. He qualified as a solicitor in 1905 and went to Hong Kong.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
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With the outbreak of war in 1914 Peter joined the Hong Kong Volunteers and served with them for eighteen months, before returning to England. He enlisted at Chichester, West Sussex on June 27 1916, \u00a0he was given a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regt., and he made\u00a0 Lieutenant in 1917. He was described as 5ft 9\u2033 tall and he weighed 165lb. In the army his legal training was used in courts martial.\u00a0 He was killed near Albert in France in 1918. \u00a0His brother had been killed three years earlier.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
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Peter and Arthur were the two youngest sons of Francis Peter and Jane Dixon. The family had been in cotton manufacturing for several generations, as Peter Dixon and Sons, Carlisle\u2019s huge tower still known as Dixon\u2019s Chimney was part of their mill. The family business had ceased to trade in 1883. Peter and Arthur\u2019s great grandfather another Peter had established a large family home at Holme Eden, in 1861 he was there with his family and they had a dozen servants living in! Both great grandsons lived there with a large extended family.<\/p>\n
The Dixon family were well known in Carlisle\u2019s political circles, their father was Mayor of Carlisle on four occasions, Peter\u2019s great-grandfather had also been Carlisle\u2019s mayor, his gt gt uncle had been High Sheriff of Cumberland and an M.P. Other members of the family \u00a0also held public office.<\/p>\n
Peter\u2019s gt grandfather was a devout Christian and he provided the land, and paid for the construction of\u00a0 St.Paul\u2019s Church at Holme Eden near Warwick Bridge, it was consecrated by the Bishop of Carlisle in 1845.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
Peter unlike his two brothers Arthur and Francis, was not destined for the family business. After leaving Carlisle grammar school he went to Denstone College and by 1901 was articled as a solicitor\u2019s clerk, serving his articles with \u00a0Mr. C.B.Hodgson, Clerk of the Peace for Cumberland. He qualified as a solicitor in 1905 and went to Hong Kong.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
With the outbreak of war in 1914 Peter joined the Hong Kong Volunteers and served with them for eighteen months, before returning to England. He enlisted at Chichester, West Sussex on June 27 1916, \u00a0he was given a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regt., and he made\u00a0 Lieutenant in 1917. He was described as 5ft 9\u2033 tall and he weighed 165lb. In the army his legal training was used in courts martial.\u00a0 He was killed near Albert in France in 1918. \u00a0His brother had been killed three years earlier.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n