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John Dickinson
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Baron Carlo Marochetti
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John Dickinson was a paper manufacturer, whose mother, Frances de Brissac, was of Huguenot descent, daughter of a Spitalfields silkweaver. She had known the printers, the Spottiswoodes, and it was through her connections that her son was enabled to make his career in paper. Dickinson was involved with a number of British and French publishers, and through them with their authors. Dickinson's son-in-law, and partner, John Evans, described a dinner at his father-in-law's London house, 39 Upper Brook Street, in February 1859, which appears to have been as much artistic as literary. "On Wednesday I went up to dine in Brook Street with a literary party...... there were twelve of us - Thackeray, Mulready, Leech, Marochetti, Bell, Pye the engraver, Van Woorst, Dr Percy Laurence, John and I besides the uncle. The great guns were rather silent except Mulready who made himself amusing. I did not fall in love with Thackeray so much as I suppose I ought to have done, but I took a great liking for Leech, who has a wonderfully expressive eye with a most comical twinkle in it." (quoted in Joan Evans, "The Endless Web. John Dickinson & Co. Ltd. 1804-1954", Jonathan Cape, London, 1955) Joan Evans, the celebrated mediaevalist, who uses a photograph of the Marochetti bust as the frontispiece for her 1955 book on her family firm, also recounts how Dickinson in 1840 set up an engineering department at his Nash Mills, under the direction of Leonard Stephenson, a railway engineer, who been an apprentice of Robert Stephenson. Another possible connection with Marochetti?
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Marble
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Portrait Bust
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Hemel Hempstead, Frogmore Paper Mill, , ,
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1850 |
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Key: |
5748 |
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5748 |
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5748 |
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2615 |
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