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"The barque
Glenswilly arrived in Sydney Harbour from Greenock, outside
Glasgow, on October 29 1839. Among the new arrivals were Hugh Dixson, his wife
Helen, and their infant son, also named Hugh.
At 29 years old, Hugh Dixson had been in business as an Edinburgh tobacco
manufacturer and retailer for a decade. He came to Sydney, according to the
standard story, to evade high excise duties on tobacco in Scotland, and
possibly at the urging of the immigration reformer and pillar of the Sydney
Scottish community Reverend John Dunmore Lang.
Upon his arrival, Dixson set up a tobacco shop in George Street and sent home
for a large containment of pipes.
A dour Baptist and the second son of a baker, Dixson was to become one of the
most successful tobacconists in colonial New South Wales. The tobacco business
made his family immensely wealthy. They used their riches to make major
contributions to the development of Australia’s educational, scientific,
medical, cultural, religious and media institutions.
What was rarely acknowledged was that these contributions were made possible by
the exploitation of people largely unknown and unnamed half a world away."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
