3-070-629 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. Dixon-Hartland, the new M.P. for Evesham, 1881. Engraving from a photograph by L. Suscipi, of Rome. 'The new member of Parliament for the borough of Evesham, who has obtained the seat after a petition to set aside the election of Mr. Lehmann last year, is Mr. Frederick Dixon-Hartland, of The Oaklands, Charlton-Kings, Gloucestershire. He was born in 1832, eldest son of the late Mr. Nathaniel Hartland, of that place, who died in 1866. His mother was. Eliza, daughter and coheiress of Dr. Thomas Dixon, M.D., of King's Lynn. Mr. Dixon-Hartland is a magistrate for the county of Gloucester, an Almoner of Christ's Hospital, London, a Fellow of the Geographical Society, and of the Society of Antiquaries. He is a member of the old banking firms of Lacy, Hartland, and Co., of London, and Hull, Smith, and Co., of Uxbridge. In politics he is a Conservative, and now enters Parliament for the first time. He is married to Grace, youngest daughter of the late Colonel Wilson, K.H., and has several children'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.