Background
DIXEY, Frederick Augustus was born on December 9, 1855 in London. Son of late A. W. Dixey.
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Frederick Augustus DIXEY
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Frederick Dixey was educated at Oxford University after starting in optometry, the profession of his father and grandfather, and chose to read medicine.
Career
He was Fellow of Wadham College and also the Sub-Warden. He felt drawn to the Church of Street Barnabas, Oxford, known for its Anglo-Catholic tradition and ceremonies. He sang in the choir for nearly forty years.
Dixey never practised medicine, but devoted himself to natural history.
He was an expert on the White butterflies, Pieridae. Dixey was knocked down and killed by a bus in 1935 as he attempted to cross the road.
lieutenant was due to his inability to judge distances accurately. Dixey"s son, Harold Giles Dixey (1893–1974), assistant master at the Dragon School in Oxford, was a writer
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Epidemic influenza
(This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)
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Epidemic influenza 1892 Hardcover
(Lang:- English, Pages 141. Reprinted in 2015 with the hel...)
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Epidemic influenza
Membership
Fellow of the Royal Society 1910.
Connections
Spouse 1892, Isabel, daughter of late C. Atkins.
