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NIXON, JOHN, brother of George Nixon (qv); b. 25 Jun 1777; adm.; KS 1793; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1796, adm. pens. 25 May 1796, scholar 29 Apr 1797; Cornet, 20th Light Dragoons 14 Feb 1800; Lieut., 14 Feb 1802; 12th Dragoons, 15 Jun 1802; half-pay, 14th Light Dragoons 21 Dec 1802; 2nd Dragoons 11 May 1805 [check : wrong Regt. ?]; Capt., 5th Garrison bn., 28 Nov 1806; 6th Foot, 16 Apr 1807; 17th Foot, 30 Jan 1812; Brevet Maj., 12 Aug 1819; retd. 7 Nov 1822; served in Peninsular War; m. 1815 Eliza Mary Anne, dau. of Capt. --- Emerson; d. at St. Thomé, Madras 1 May 1831.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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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.