William Edward Armytage Axon
1846–1913
Journalist, antiquarian, bibliographer, and social reformer. Began work at the Manchester Free Library in 1861; sublibrarian, 1867. On the literary staff of the Manchester Guardian, 1874–1905.
A founder member of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society. An ardent vegetarian and a member of the Anti-Tobacco League.Source
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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