Robert Vickers Dixon (born

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22 October 1812; died

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14 May 1885) was an Irish academic and clergyman who served as

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(TCD) from 1848 to 1853, and much later as

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from 1883 to 1885.

Career

Dixon was born in Dublin, son of Robert Dixon, and was educated at TCD,''Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)''.

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Thomas Ulick Sadleir Thomas Ulick Sadleir (1882–1957) was an Irish genealogist and heraldic expert. He was successively registrar of the Order of St Patrick, Deputy Ulster King of Arms and Acting Ulster King of Arms. Career Sadleir's first involvement with the of ...

p. 232: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 obtaining BA (1833), MA (1839), DD (1862). He was elected a Fellow of TCD in 1838,"University Honours" ''

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'' (Dublin, Ireland), Saturday, June 16, 1838 and in 1849, he published the book ''Treatise on Heat, Part 1: The Thermometer; Dilation; Change of State; And Laws of Vapours'' (Hodges and Smith, Dublin). In 1853 he left TCD, publishing "Scientific Training for Practical Pursuits: A Farewell Address to the Students of the School of Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin" (Hodges and Smith, 1854). Having been ordained in 1839,'' Crockford's Clerical Directory'' 1885 p. 7338: London,

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Cox, 1885 in 1853 he became to Rector of Clogherny. Thirty years later he was appointed

, two years before his death. His nephew was a distinguished physician.Andrew Francis Dixon (1868-1936)
The Embryo Project Encyclopedia

References

1812 births 1885 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Archdeacons of Armagh Fellows of Trinity College Dublin 19th-century Irish Anglican priests {{UK-Anglican-clergy-stub