George Hudson payment of 12 shillings and 6 pence recorded in the Howsham poor book as being “received of George Hudson for bastardry”. Hudson was apprenticed to Bell and Nicholson, a firm of drapers in College Street, York. He finished his apprenticeship in 1820, was taken on as a tradesman, and given a share in the business early in 1821. On 17 July that year he married Nicholson's daughter Elizabeth. When Bell retired, the firm became Nicholson and Hudson. By 1827 the company was the largest drapery, indeed the largest business, in York. In 1827, his great-uncle Matthew Botrill fell ill and
George Dixon (MP) of Birmingham in 1898, the year he died. The 1906 George Dixon Schools (now George Dixon Primary School and George Dixon Academy) in Edgbaston are named after Dixon. Indirectly, through the school, he gave his name to the television character PC George Dixon, who first appeared in the film "The Blue Lamp" (1950), produced by a former pupil, Sir Michael Balcon, and subsequently in the TV series "Dixon of Dock Green". George Dixon (MP) George Dixon (1820 – 24 January 1898) was an English Liberal Party then Liberal Unionist politician who was active in local government in Birmingham and sat