Albert Edward Dixon

• Born      1867 at Leeds
• Died  3 February 1949 at 45 Cardigan Road Leeds

Albert Edward Dixon was born in Leeds in 1867 and was the son of John Dixon, a master dyer employing 21 men. He was a prize-winning student of the Leeds and Yorkshire Architectural Society in 1887 and an associate member from 1885 when he was an articled pupil to Chorley and Connon, architects of Leeds, By 1891 he had set up practice on his own account at 2 Upper Fountaine Street. He was elected Associate of the RIBA in 1893. and by 1894 he was in practice in Park Lane Leeds. However, he was a full member of the LYAS, for only one year from 1898-to 1899. In 1896 he deposited designs for a stable and outbuildings to a house in Cardigan Road. About 1904 he moved to Manchester where he entered a number of architectural competitions either in his own name or in partnership with Charles H Potter. Dixon and Potter obtained first premium for Bangor Library and Reddish Baths and Library competitions. With Percy B Lodge he also obtained first premium for a school. However, other than these he appears to have obtained no other significant commissions.

In 1910 A E Dixon abandoned independent practice. Moving to Lytham he obtained employment with Lancashire County Council as an assistant to the County Architect. At the end of the First World War he was back in Leeds, working in the Housing Commissioner’s Office.  In 1923 over thirty years after Dixon had first opened an office in Leeds he again commenced independent practice with a new office in Park Row. Shortly thereafter he was joined in partnership by William Henry Beevers under the style of Beevers and Dixon. Beevers died in 1933 but the practice was still listed in the RIBA Kalendar of 1937.

Alfred Ernest Dixon died on 3 February 1949 at 45 Cardigan Road Leeds.

Address
1891    2 Upper Fountaine Street
1894    Albert E Dixon ARIBA architect & surveyor 3a (8a ?)Park Lane Leeds (White’s Leeds Directory)
1905    Albert E Dixon  65 King Street
1906    Dixon & Potter 65 King Street
1907    Dixon & Potter. 9, St. James’s Square, Manchester
1909    Albert E Dixon ARIBA FMSA (Dixon & Potter) 9 St James’s Square Manchester (Slater)
1911     Lancashire Country Council Architects Department County Hall Preston
1919    Housing Commissioner’s Office, Quebec House, Leeds
1924    Albert Edward  Dixon 26 Park Row Leeds
1929-1936 : Albert Edward Dixon  (Beevers and Dixon) 26 Park Row Leeds

Residence
1894    54 Francis Street (Whites Directory of Leeds & Clothing District)
1901    Harrogate (1901 Census)
1909    29 Hawthorn Road, Heaton Mersey (Slater Suburban)
1911    34? Brockenbury Road Preston (Slaters 1911 MSA listing)
1911-13  26 Central Drive, Ansdell, near Lytham, Lancashire
1922    33 Lyndon Terrace Leeds
1949    71 Estcourt Avenue Headingly Leeds