John William Cousin, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature… (1910)
“ Dixon, William Hepworth (1821-1879) .—Historian and traveller, b. near Manchester, went to London in 1846, and became connected with The Daily News, for which he wrote articles on social and prison reform. In 1850 he pub. John Howard and the Prison World of Europe, which had a wide circulation, and about the same time he wrote a Life of Peace (1851) , in answer to Macaulay'sMacaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord onslaught. Lives of Admiral Blake and Lord Bacon followed, which received somewhat severe criticisms at the hands of competent authorities. ”
