Edward Dawson, Owner of Aldcliffe Hall, lord of the manor in nineteenth-century local usage
Dates: 1793-1876
Biography
Edward Dawson inherited and consolidated the Dawson-Leigh Aldcliffe estate. He built the new hall in 1817, reclaimed marshland, developed the estate and was the principal freeholder at Aldcliffe until his death in 1876.
Notes / Sources
The source records his estate ownership directly and distinguishes tenant farms from his freehold.
Research sources:
- R. Bellis, Aldcliffe historical transcript, pp. 72-73 and 91-92; the transcript records Edward Dawson as holding freehold lands in the manor of Aldcliffe and as owner of practically all Aldcliffe by 1876. — https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/rhc/Aldcliffetranscript.pdf
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