Dixon Robinson

[1] Having trained and articled as surveyor and land agent at Kirkby Lonsdale,[1] he then adopted the profession of law, eventually becoming a partner in the firm of Carr and Robinson, solicitors, of King Street Blackburn and Clitheroe.

Colonel Geoffrey Robinson, noted in trade directories in 1951, was the fourth generation to work in the firm, being the great-grandson of Dixon.

On Wednesday 24 July, the funeral cortége of many carriages, travelled from Clitheroe Castle to Blackburn Parish Church, prior to interment in the crypt.

Monday 24 April 1826 a mass meeting of weavers was held on Enfield Moor, The mob then started out for Blackburn, At Jubilee Mill, Simeon Wright attacked the Reverend Noble, hitting him with a large stick, this was taken from him by the Magistrates' Clerk Dixon Robinson.

[tired] him – for upwards of a week he scarce had his cloaths off – and since has had little rest, for he has been up two or three nights each week with the magistrates & military taking up the most active of the rioters and which can only be done in the night, as during the day they are upon the alert and have scouts to give them intelligence of the approach of the military without whom the civil power has no chance of contending with them.

[15] He subscribed £10 10s to The Royal Patriotic Fund in 1854,[16] he donated 5 tons of "best Clitheroe lime" to Blackburn Council "for whitewashing the dwellings of the poor & narrow alleys....to prevent the plague of epidemic disease".

The quarry and works were served by sidings from the new railway (now the Ribble Valley Line), which opened in the 3rd week of June 1850.

There was also a Gasworks at the Bold Venture works, which supplied both Chatburn and Downham, this was transferred by the Board of Trade to Clitheroe Corporation Gas in 1925.