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John
Dixon |
Notts County FC &
Corinthians FC
1 cap, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 1 L 0 F 1:
A 1
50% successful
1885
disciplined: none
captaincies: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
John Auger Dixon |
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Born |
27 May 1861 in
Grantham, Lincolnshire [registered in
Grantham, June 1861]. |
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Census Notes |
Although not found on the
1861 census, Susannah is pregnant with the child that will become John
Auger. His father is William. John already has an elder brother, Arthur. |
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According to the 1871 census,
the Dixon family are living at 54 High Street, Grantham, with two
servants. John is not on the return. |
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According to the 1881 census,
John A. is the eldest of four children to their parents and two servants
at 13 Waverley Street, Gedling Grove in the St Marys' area of Nottingham.
John is a warehouseman, his father is a manufacturer in the clothes
industry. |
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According to the 1891 census,
John A., a clothing manufacturer, is lodging with the Goodacre's at 4
Villa Road in St Mary's. |
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According to the 1901 census,
John A. is living with his younger sister, Clara, at 27 Elm Avenue in
Nottingham. John is a wholesale and retail clothier, with two servants. |
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According to the 1911 census,
John Auger is married to Maud, living at 27 Elm Avenue with two servants.
John is a clothing manufacturer. |
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Married |
to Maud Beatrice Hannington
[registered in Nottingham, December 1910]. |
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Died |
8 June 1931 at The Park, Nottingham, aged
70 years 12 days
[registered in Nottingham, June 1931]. |
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Height/Weight |
not known |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
Played
schoolboy football at three Nottinghamshire schools, Grantham Grammar,
Nottingham High and Chigwell Grammer. He assisted Notts County FC
from the middle of the 1884-85 season, when he also played for Corinthians
FC. |
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Club honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Also a
first-class
cricketer who appeared for Nottinghamshire CCC between 1882 and 1905,
captaining the side from 1889 until 1900. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of
three who became the 120th players to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Inside-left |
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Only match |
No. 24, 14
March 1885, England 1 Wales 1, a British Championship match at Leamington Street, Blackburn,
aged 23 years 291 days; |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1884-85 |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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Retired from
football on health grounds circa 1886, but continued to play
cricket. He was a member of the Nottinghamshire CCC committee from
1895 until his death.
Dixon became the first President of the Old Nottinghamians’
Cricket Club (ONCC) as well as a Test Selector.
Memorial gates were erected at the main entrance of the Trent Bridge
ground in 1933. Was a partner in a firm of manufacturing clothiers
and was also a JP -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming
(1990). Hatton Press, p.88. |
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