Thom's Irish Who's Who/Dixon, Augustus Edward

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.