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Jeremiah Dixon, of Gledhow, Esq
According to The biographia leodiensis; or, Biographical sketches of the worthies of Leeds and neighbourhood, from the Norman conquest to the present time, some details about the sheriff Dixon :

"Near this place are deposited the remains of Mr. John Dixon, of Leeds, merchant, who died 4th February, 1749, aged fifty -four years. — And also of Frances, his wife, who died 16th September, 1750, aged sixty-two years. Their exemplary conjugal affection, and uniform practice of religious duties, made their loss sincerely lamented, more particularly by their only son, Jeremiah Dixon, of Gledhow, Esq., F.R.S., high sheriff of this county in the year 1758, who died 7th of June, 1782, aged fifty-six years. At whose request this monument is erected, as a token of respect, to the memory of his parents. His own unsullied purity and amiableness of manners, strict integrity and elegance of taste, cultivated mind and evenness of temper, with an unwearied attention to the duties of a man, a citizen, and a Christian, engaged the esteem of all who knew him, and rendered him an example worthy of the imitation of posterity. — Also in memory of Mary Dixon, wife of the above-mentioned Jeremiah Dixon, Esq., ..."

Jeremiah Dixon, of Gledhow, Esq. Dixon was a prominent Leeds Merchant who had been High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1758, ‘under-taker of the Aire and Calder Navigation and deputy receiver of the West Riding land-tax. High Sheriff of Yorkshire (MAD)