AXON,+William+Edward+Armitage

AXON, William Edward Armitage (1846-1913) Manchester 1861-1874 (DL 1867) He was subsequently on the staff of the Manchester Guardian and was the author of //Annals of Manchester// (1886). He was the father of Ernest and the grandfather of Geoffrey.

R Walmsley 'Dr Axon - Manchester bookman' (//Manchester Review,// Summer/Autumn 1964, //pp//138-154).

Brian Charles Hollingworth, ‘ Axon, William Edward Armytage (1846–1913) ’, //Oxford Dictionary of National Biography//, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 31 Aug 2008