Samuel Robinson (1794–1884) was an
English
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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
Library
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in 1833.
Robinson was a
Unitarian, and is often called the "foremost promoter of
education
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in the district" by the people of Dukinfield.
Tamside Township Information
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1794 births
1884 deaths
19th-century English educators
English philanthropists
People from Dukinfield
19th-century British philanthropists
19th-century English businesspeople
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