John Dix

(1811-1865)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dix, John Ross, 1800?-1865 DNB: Dix, John (b. 1811, d. in or after 1864), writer LBT ID: JoDix1865 VIAF ID: 23770086 LOC ID: n90716230	B/BAP: 1811-09-21 DIED: 1865-11-09
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Bristol surgeon, poet, memoirist, and biographer of Chatterton; an alcoholic, he abandoned his family and emigrated to America.
REFERENCES TO John Dix: Robert Southey to Walter Savage Landor, 31 March 1839 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXVIII. 1837-1843