John DICKINSON
Born 29 March 1782 (christened at Barking Church)
First child of Capt. Thomas DICKINSON and France de BRISSAC.
Married 5 Sept 1810 at Hemel Hempstead,
Ann GROVER of the Bury, Hemel
Hempstead.
The Bury, Hemel Hempstead.
(In Lockhart's 'Life of Sir Walter Scott', 1838, Vol.VII.
p. 207, is the following extract from
Sir Walter's Diary, under the date 3 June 1830.
"I finished my proofs, and sent them off with copy. I saw Mr Dickinson* on
Tuesday, a right plain sensible man.
He is so confident in my matters, the, being a large creditor himself, he offers
to come down, with the support
of all the London Creditors, to carry through any measure that can be devised
for my behalf."
* "Mr John Dickinson of Nash Mills, Herts, the eminent paper-maker." Note.
Died 11 Jan 1869
John Dickinson's home = Abbot's Hill, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire. (Now a
school.)
Their children were -
John Moody DICKINSON, 13 June 1811 - 23 May 1812 buried at Hemel Hempstead.
John Henry DICKINSON, 7 Dec 1812 - 25 Jan 1813
Frances Elizabeth DICKINSON, 1 Jan
1814 - 15 Nov 1881; married 14 April 1841 Frederick William Pratt
BARLOW
They had eight children. He died 18 July 1883.
John DICKINSON, 28 Dec 1815 - 23 Nov 1876; married Alicia Martha BICKNALL
Samuel DICKINSON, 10 March 1820 - 20 June 1826
William DICKINSON, 15 Dec 1821 - 26 Aug 1832
Harriet Ann DICKINSON, 11 June 1823
(at Nash Mills) - 1 Jan 1858 (buried at Abbot's Langley.)
She married 12 Sept 1850, her cousin John EVANS. She died
as a result of childbith (twelve days after giving birth to
Harriet Ann
EVANS)
John Dickinson invented a continuous mechanised papermaking process and founded the paper mills at Croxley Green, Apsley and Nash Mills near Hemel Hempstead, hertfordshire, England, which evolved into John Dickinson Stationery Limited. As a young man he had known about the silk weaving on a continuous loom from his Huguenot grandfather Peter Abraham de Brissac. Continuous paper making instead of small sheets, was an obvious invention.
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