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|name = Sir Raylton Dixon |image = Sir Raylton Dixon00.jpg |image_size = |birth_date = {{birth date|1838|07|08|df=y}} |birth_place = Durham, England |death_date = {{death date|df=yes|1901|07|28}} |death_place = Middlesbrough, England |nationality = United Kingdom |field = Shipbuilding Industrialist |work_institutions = 1889 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = Mayor of Middlesbrough |influences = |influenced = |prizes = knighthood for services to shipbuilding |footnotes = |signature = }} Sir Raylton Dixon (8 July 1838 – 28 July 1901), was a shipbuilding magnate from Middlesbrough on the River Tees who served as Mayor of Middlesbrough. Background and early lifeDixon was one of the seven children of Jeremiah II Dixon (1804–1882) and Mary Frank (1803–1877) of Cockfield, County Durham who were married on 21 July 1833 in St. Cuthberts, Darlington. He was the great-grandson of George Dixon of Cockfield Canal fame, and great, great nephew of Jeremiah Dixon. [1]He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford, where he studied Mathematics. Business lifeThe yard first did business under the name Backhouse & Dixon. Raylton Dixon started the firm of Raylton Dixon & Co. in 1873 with the substantial Dixon family coal mining fortune, and it operated until 1923 when it was dissolved. At the height of its production the three Dixon brothers, Raylton, John, and Waynman, were involved in running the company.[2] During its 50-year life the Cleveland Dockyard built more than 600 vessels, the first ship, the iron steamer SS Torrington,[3] being launched in 1874. The ship was later renamed the SS Kwanon Maru No. 11 and ran aground and was wrecked off Yagoshi Point, Hokkaido on 7 March 1908.[4] Raylton Dixon & Co earned a reputation for the construction of sound, large cargo-liners and during the 1890s had contracts with all the major shipping companies of the time. They also turned out refrigerated ships for the meat industry. Dixon was a close friend of George Young Blair (1826–1894), whose firm, Blair & Co., built marine triple expansion engines and were fitted in Raylton Dixon ships.[5][6][7][8] Raylton Dixon ships played an important role in world history. The {{SS|Montrose|1897|6}} was built in 1897 as a refrigerated cargo steamer, accommodating 12 first-class passengers. In 1900 she was chartered to make eight voyages to Cape Town, ferrying the Dublin & Denbigh Imperial Yeomanry, with their horses, to the Anglo-Boer War. In 1904 Doctor Crippen and his secretary, Ethel Le Neve, were aboard the ship and acted suspiciously, causing the master to radio Liverpool, resulting in their arrest on the St. Lawrence River. In 1914 she was sold to the admiralty for use as a blockship in Dover harbour, but broke her moorings during a gale and ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, her mast remaining visible until 1963. [9]The general cargo steamer SS Mont-Blanc built at Raylton Dixon in 1899 devastated Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada when she blew up with a cargo of ammunition in the 1917 Halifax Explosion. Raylton Dixon was knighted in 1890 for his contributions to shipbuilding.[10] Personal lifeDixon married on 5 August 1863 Elizabeth Walker, daughter of Robert Walker. She was born in 1841 and died in 1915, aged 74. They produced eight children:[11]
Raylton Dixon was buried in St Cuthbert's Marton churchyard.[13][14] References1. ^{{Cite web |last=Pease |first=Charles E.G. |title=The Descendants of Ralph Dixon |work=The Kinloch Hotel |format=PDF |accessdate=26 January 2014 |date=1 August 2013 |url=http://www.pennyghael.org.uk/Dixon.pdf}} 2. ^{{Cite web |title=SS Abeona Cargo Ship 1880-1883 |work=Wreck Site |accessdate=5 July 2015 |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?9787}} 3. ^{{Cite web |last1=Robinson |first1=George |last2=Ridgard |first2=Mike |last3=Mapplebeck |first3=Ron |last4=Waller |first4=Dave |title=Raylton Dixon & Company, Middlesbrough - Torrington |work=Shipbuilding on the River Tees |accessdate=5 July 2015 |url=http://www.teesbuiltships.co.uk/rayltondixon/torrington1874.htm}} 4. ^{{Cite web |last=Allen |first=Tony |title=Torrington Cargo Ship 1895-1908 |work=Wreck site |accessdate=26 July 2014 |date=31 October 2013 |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?145763}} 5. ^{{Cite web |title=jakesbarn.com |url=http://jakesbarn.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818194742/http://jakesbarn.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=1|dead-url=yes|archivedate=18 August 2011}} 6. ^{{Cite web |title=Blair and Co |work=Grace's Guide |publisher=British Industrial Society |accessdate=26 January 2014 |date=3 June 2015 |url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Blair_and_Co}} 7. ^{{Cite web |last1=Allen |first1=Tony |last2=Lettens |first2=Jan |title=Serapis Cargo Ship 1877-1917 |work=Wreck Site |accessdate=26 January 2014 |date=17 July 2012 |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?140400}} 8. ^{{Cite web |last1=Lettens |first1=Jan |last2=Allen |first2=Tony |title=Blair & Co. Ltd. Stockton-on-Tees |work=Wreck Site |date=28 July 2013 |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/ownerBuilderView.aspx?302}} 9. ^{{cite web|title=fortunecity.com |url=http://www.fortunecity.com/littleitaly/amalfi/13/shipm.htm |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212033551/http://www.fortunecity.com/littleitaly/amalfi/13/shipm.htm |archivedate=12 December 2010 }} 10. ^{{Cite web |title=Sir Raylton Dixon and Co |work=Graces Guide |publisher=British Industrial Society |accessdate=5 July 2015 |date=27 November 2014 |url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Sir_Raylton_Dixon_and_Co}} 11. ^{{Cite web |last=Markes |first=Martina |title=John Dixon Rutherford |work=Markes Family History - A History of the Markes and related families |accessdate=27 August 2015 |year=2004 |url=http://www.marko.dgmm.net/johndixonrutherford.html}} 12. ^{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Marriages |day_of_week=Saturday |date=9 August 1902 |page_number=1 |issue=36842| }} 13. ^{{cite web|title=marko.dgmm.net |url=http://www.marko.dgmm.net/johndixonrutherford.html |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723085458/http://www.marko.dgmm.net/johndixonrutherford.html |archivedate=23 July 2011 }} 14. ^{{cite web|title=Communigate |url=http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/stcuthbertsmarton/page6.phtml |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630210531/http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/stcuthbertsmarton/page6.phtml |archivedate=30 June 2012 }} External links
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