Frederick Augustus Dixey

Frederick Augustus Dixey FRS[1] (9 December 1855 – 16 January 1935) was president of the Royal Entomological Society of London, and was a distinguished British entomologist.[2]

Frederick Dixey was educated at Highgate School from 1867 to 1874, and was later a governor of the school from 1920 until his death.[3] He won a scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford, where after starting in optometry, the profession of his father and grandfather, he chose to read medicine. He became a fellow of Wadham[4] and also the sub-warden. He felt drawn to the Church of St 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. It 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,[4] was a writer.

References

  1. ↑ Poulton, E. B. (1935). "Frederick Augustus Dixey. 1855-1935". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1 (4): 465. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1935.0010.
  2. ↑ Dobson, J. (1951). "Frederick Augustus Dixey" (PDF). The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume. 33B (2): 275–277. PMID 14832332.
  3. ↑ Ed. Boreham, J.Y. Highgate School Register 1838-1938 (4th ed.). pp. xxi, 55.
  4. 1 2 "Collection Level Description: Dixey Family Papers". Oxford: Bodleian Library. Retrieved 3 October 2012.

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