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Henry Hall Dixon (16 May 1822 – 16 March 1870) was an English sporting writer known by his
pen name A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen na ...
, "The Druid".


Life

Henry Hall Dixon was born at Warwick Bridge, Cumberland, on 16 May 1822. He was the second son of Sarah Rebecca and Peter Dixon. He was educated at
Rugby School Rugby School is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. Up ...
and at
Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...
, from which he graduated in 1846. He took up the profession of the law, but, though called to the 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 Magazine ''The Sporting Magazine'' (1793–1870) was the first English sporting periodical to devote itself to every type of sport. Its subtitle was "Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chase and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the ...
'', in the pages of which appeared three of his novels, ''Post and Paddock'' (1856), ''Silk and Scarlet'' (1859), and ''Scott and Sebright'' (1862). He also published a legal compendium entitled ''The Law of the Farm'' (1858), which ran through several editions. His other more important works were ''Field and Fern'' (1865), giving an account of the herds and flocks of Scotland, and ''Saddle and Sirloin'' (1870), treating in the same manner those of England. He died at
Kensington Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West End of London, West of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...
on 16 March 1870.


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* 1822 births 1870 deaths People from Wetheral People educated at Rugby School 19th-century English novelists 19th-century journalists Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English legal writers English male journalists English male novelists 19th-century English male writers {{UK-bio-stub