Frederick Whittaker Dixon
He worked as a partner in Oldham company Potts, Pickup & Dixon (run by fellow Methodists) from 1880 to around 1889 when he set up his own practice.His later mills used pronounced piers or buttresses between the windows, extending unbroken from the ground to the parapet.[1] The Dixons designed 22 mills in Oldham containing 1.8 million spindles, making him responsible for about 30% of the capacity increase at that time.[citation needed] He also designed chapels such as the one for the Swedenborgians in Failsworth and the Primitive Methodists in Chadderton.[citation needed] From 1896 Dixon lived in (and travelled to Oldham from) Southport, Lancashire.