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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO
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Chairman of Irish Nationalist Party, 1918; b. 1851: son of late J. B. Dillon, M.P.; m. 1895, Elizabeth (d. 1907), dau. of late Rt. Hon. Sir J. C. Mathew. Res.: 2 North Great George's Street, Dublin.

DILLON, Sir John Fox, Bart. (Unit. Kgd., 1801), a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire. Formerly Hon. Major, 5th Batt. Prince of Wales' Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians): J.P., D.L., Co. Meath; eldest son of Colonel Sir John, 6th Bart., and Fanny (d. 1898), dau. of Thomas Fox, of Beaminster, Dorsetshire: b. 1813; s. his father, 28th Nov., 1875; m. 18th Nov., 1879, Marion Louisa, dau. of the late Robert S. Dykes; one dau. Res.: Lismullen, Garlow Cross. Navan, Co. Meath. Kildare Street Club, Dublin.

DILWORTH, William J., M.A. (T.C.D. Educ.: Santry School, Dublin; Trinity College, Dublin. Graduated with First Class Honours in Mathematics in Dublin University, 1886; Professor in the Training College of the Commissioners of National Education, 1894; Principal of the College, 1901; Secretary to Board of National Education from 1903; b. 1863; m. 1895, Mary Tempe Kildahl, and has issue one son and three daus Pubns.: New Sequel to Euclid. Recns.: lawn tennis and golf. Res.: 23 Palmerston road, Rathmines, Dublin. Club: University, Dublin.

DINNEEN, John (M.P. for East and North East Cork from 1922).

DIXON, Alfred Cardew, F.R.S., 1904, M.A. (Lond.), Sc.D. (Camb.) Educ; Kingswood and Woodhouse Grove School; Trinity College, Cambridge; Senior Wrangler, 1886 (late Fellow). Late Professor of Mathematics, Queen's College, Galway; Professor of Mathematics, Queen's University, Belfast; son of Rev. G.T. Dixon; b. 1865: m. 1895, Miss G. L. Smallpage. Pubns: Elementary. Properties of Elliptic Functions; sundry mathematical papers. Res.: 9 Bladon Drive, Belfast.

DIXON, Andrew Francis, M.B., D.Sc. (T.C.D.) Educ.: Trinity College, Dublin, and Leipsic; Professor of Anatomy, University College, Cardiff, 1897-1903; University Professor of Anatomy, Trinity College, Dublin, from 1903; son of George Dixon, of Dublin; m. Margaret Kerr, dau. of R. M. Johnston, and has issue one son and one dau. Res.: 73 Grosvenor Road, Dublin.

DIXON, Augustus Edward, M.D., Dublin; Professor of Chemistry, University College, Cork. Educ.: Royal Academical Institution, Belfast; Trinity College, Dublin; University of Berlin. Senior Moderatorship and Gold Medal in Experimental Science, T.C.D.; Ekenhead Scholarship in Experimental Science, and Medical Scholarship in Chemistry and Physics, T.C.D.; late Professor of Chemistry at Queen's College, Galway; Member of the Council, Chemical Society, 1900-1905. Pubns.: numerous memoirs on chemical subjects published mostly in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Chemical Society of London. Recns.: photography, etc.; b. Belfast, 1860; son of Wakefield H. Dixon, J.P., merchant; m. 1890, Nina, dau. of Wilfred Haughton, Dublin; one son, one dau. Res.: 1 Fernhurst Avenue. Western Road, Cork.

DIXON, Henry Horatio, D.Sc, F.R.S., 1908: Professor of Botany in the University of Dublin, 1904; Director of Trinity College Botanic Gardens, 1906: Keeper of the Herbarium, Trinity College, Dublin, 1910. Educ: Rathmines School; Trinity College, Dublin; University of Bonn. Assistant to the Professor of Botany, Dublin University, 1892-1904; Member of the Council of the Royal Dublin Society, 1908; Member of the Board of Visitors of the Science and Art Museum, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, 1911; Member of the Council of Trustees of the National Library of Ireland, 1914; Member of the Committee of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology, 1918; awarded the Boyle medal of the Royal Dublin Society, 1917. Pubns; Transpiration and the ascent of sap in Plants, 1914: papers contributed to the Royal Society, Royal Dublin Society, and the Royal Irish Academy, chifly on Vegetable Physiology and Histology. Recns.: yachting and cycling; son of George Dixon and Rebecca, dau. of George Yeates; b. Dublin; m. 1907, Dorothea Mary, dau. of late Sir John H. Franks, C.B.; issue, two sons. Res.: School of Botany, Trinity College, and Clevedon, Temple Road, Dublin.

DIXON, Capt. Herbert (M.P. for Belfast, Pottinger Div., from Dec, 1918; M.P. for East Belfast, Northern Parliament, Ireland, from 1921); Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland. 1921: Capt., Reserve of Officers; late Capt., Dragoons: D.L., Co. Down; fourth son of late Rt. Hon. Sir Daniel Dixon, Bart.. P.C.: b. 1880; m. 1905, Hon. Emily Ina Florence Bingham, 2nd dau. of Lord Clanmorris. Res.: New Abbey, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.

DIXON, Sir Thomas James, Bart. (Unit. Kgd., 1903), Chairman, Thos. Dixon and Sons, Ltd., timber merchants and shipowners of Belfast; Member of Belfast Harbour Board: J.P., D.L.. for Co. Antrim (High Sheriff,1912); High Sheriff, Co. Down, 1913; son of the late Rt. Hon. Sir Daniel, 1st Bart., P.C, M.P., and Lizzie d. 1868), dau. of the late James Agnew; b. 29th May, 1868; s. his father, 10th Mar., 1907: m. 7th Feb., 1906, Edith Stewart,