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HENRY HALL DIXON (1822-1870)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 347 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:HALL See also:DIXON (1822-1870)  , See also:English sporting writer over the nom de plume " The Druid," was See also:born at See also:Warwick See also:Bridge, See also:Cumberland, on the 16th of May 1822, and was educated at See also:Rugby and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated in 1846 . He took up the profession of the See also:law, but, though called to the See also:bar in 1853, soon returned to sporting journalism, in which he had already made a name for himself, and began to write regularly for the Sporting See also:Magazine, in the pages of which appeared three of his novels, See also:Post and Paddock (1856), See also:Silk and See also:Scarlet (1859), and See also:Scott and Sebright (1862) . He also published a legal compendium entitled The Law of the See also:Farm (1858), which ran through several See also:editions . His other more important See also:works were See also:Field and See also:Fern (1865), giving an See also:account of the herds and flocks of See also:Scotland, and See also:Saddle and Sirloin (187o), treating in the . same manner those of See also:England . He died at See also:Kensington on the 16th of See also:March 187o . See Hon . See also:Francis Lawley, See also:Life and Times of " The Druid" (See also:London, 1895) ..

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