Horace Henry Dixon

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(known informally as Jimmy) (1 August 1869 – 8 November 1964) was a British priest in the

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who became

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and then assistant bishop of Brisbane. He was also the founding headmaster of

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Early life

Dixon was born in 1869 in

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, the son of Thomas Dixon, a bookseller, and his wife Lucy (née Eastgate).

Career

Dixon was initially a teacher, working as a housemaster at Warkworth House, Cambridge, for three years. He graduated through Fitzwilliam Hall, Cambridge, in 1892. He was ordained deacon in 1893 and priest in 1894, both at

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. He served curacies in Epping (1893–94), St Michael and All Angels,

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(1894–97), and St Matthew's, Burnley (1898–99), and worked briefly in the East End. He was recruited for service in

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by Bishop William Webber, and arrived in the colony in 1899, being assigned to

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, then a parish covering an immense distance from

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to the

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border. In 1901 he founded

, and was headmaster until 1929. In 1903 the schoolboys nicknamed him 'Jimmy', after the Aboriginal outlaw,

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, who had been hanged in 1901. He relinquished the incumbency of St Peter's, Southport in 1905. Dixon was an honorary canon of

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from 1919. In 1930 he was appointed canon residentiary and in 1931

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, but relinquished that office on becoming bishop coadjutor in 1932. He retired as assistant bishop in 1961, having been appointed

the previous year.

Personal life

He married first, in 1897, Florence Marie Godbold. He and his first wife had two sons, Horace and Cecil. He married secondly, in 1936, Enid Rose Morgan-Jones. He died in 1964, aged 95, and was buried in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dixon, Horace 1869 births 1964 deaths Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Deans of Brisbane Australian Anglican bishops Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane Commanders_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire