William Edward Armytage Axon was an English librarian, antiquary and journalist for the Manchester Guardian.
12 Facts About William Axon
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William Axon was best known as an antiquary and a bibliographer, but his interests were extremely varied.
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Besides this, as a member of the English Dialect Society William Axon wrote many tales and sketches illustrating the dialect and customs of the county in which he lived.
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William Axon married Jane Woods in 1866; they had three children.
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William Axon was the author of Cobden as a Citizen in 1907.
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William Axon published his study of Anna Jane Vardill's poem that was a sequel to Coleridge's poem Christabel in 1908.
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William Axon was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an honorary LL.
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William Axon died at home on 27 December 1913 and was buried at St Paul's Church in Kersal, Manchester.
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William Axon was an ardent vegetarian and member of the Anti-Tobacco League.
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William Axon contributed articles on the history of vegetarianism to John Harvey Kellogg's Good Health journal.
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William Axon wrote the preface for the 1884 edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's A Vindication of Natural Diet.
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Historian Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska has noted that "William Axon abhorred cruelty to animals and the degrading work of the 'slaughterman, reeking with blood and striking to death with remorseless blows a creature that shares with him the gift of life".