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DIXON, HAROLD BAILY, brother of William Jerrold Dixon (qv); b. 11 Aug 1852; adm. 15 Jun 1865; QS 1867; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1871, matr. 27 May 1871; 3rd cl. Classics (Mods) 1873, 1st cl. Natural Science 1875; BA 1875; MA 1878; played Association Football against Cambridge; Millard Lecturer, Trin. Coll. Oxford 1879-86, Bedford Lecturer, Balliol Coll. Oxford 1881-6; Fellow of Balliol Coll. 1886-7; Natural Science Examiner, Oxford 1886-8, 1899-1900; FRS 4 Jun 1886, Royal Medal 1913; Professor of Chemistry, Owen’s Coll., Manchester Univ., 1886-1922, Hon. Professor from 1922; member, Royal Commission on Explosions of Coal Dust in Mines 1891-4, Royal Commission on Coal Supplies 1902-5; President, Chemical Society 1909-11; member, Home Office Executive Committee on Explosions in Mines 1911-4; Deputy Inspector of High Explosives, Manchester area, during 1914-18 War; CBE 7 Jun 1918; Chairman, Selective Committee for NW District, Ministry of Labour 1922; Superintendent of Research on Ignition of Gases under Safety in Mines Research Board 1927; author, The Conditions of Chemical Change in Gases, 1884, and other works; m. 1st, 14 Jul 1885 Olive Beechey, dau. of Edward Martin Hopkins, Montreal, Canada; m. 2nd, 26 Aug 1918 Muriel Agnes Mary, dau. of William Kinch, Henley, Oxfordshire; d. 18 Sep 1930.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.