Samuel Robinson (1794–1884) was an

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industrialist and scholar of

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who founded the

Dukinfield Dukinfield is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, on the south bank of the River Tame, Greater Manchester, River Tame opposite Ashton-under-Lyne, east of Manchester. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the built up ar ...

Village

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in 1833. Robinson was a Unitarian, and is often called the "foremost promoter of

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in the district" by the people of Dukinfield. Tamside Township Information
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