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QUERIES:-"Aitredan "-Jordan's Grave-' Cumnor Hall' In the later sixties his wife, who had borne Sneyd - Phineas Pett - Movable Pew-Chaplains to him one daughter, became a confirmed invalid, George III.-Gayley, 107-Gory-Cranmer's Bible-Beck-in consequence of which and her subsequent ford—“Merry "—" Bail" - Henry VIII. -The Sound of "ni"-John Webbe, 108-"Twilight of Plate"-" Mus tow "-Skull on Portrait-Foster-Authors Wanted, 109. REPLIES:-Sin-Eater, 109-Vatican Emerald, 111—“ Ade" -8. W. Ryley-Byron Letter-"Hame"-Knecht Ruprecht, 112 Ráá de St. Maur"-Earl of Nottingham's death at Brighton he gave up the active exercise of his profession and left London, retiring to the neighbourhood of Dorking, where with his beloved daughter he passed the last twenty-five years of his life at his residence called Harrowlands. But although no longer practising proPortrait - Gallett, 113- Sargeaunt—“Barisál Guns". fessionally, he liberally gave advice and kindly Milton's Sonnet on Shakspeare, 114-Faucit Saville-Ker help to his poorer neighbours in cases of ophthal-St. Gastayne-North Lincolnshire Game, 115-Devon-mic trouble, and earned the grateful remembrances Robert Roxby-Pitt Club, 116-Weldon of many. His leisure allowed him also to indulge Family—"Charivari," 117-High Rates of Postage-John tastes which he had always had for language and Worthington-Meeting-house-Goblets, 118. literature, and he became a considerable authority NOTES ON BOOKS:-Newman's Gluck and the Opera'-biography of the eighteenth and earlier part of the on the political, social, and literary history and shire Dialect 'Book Prices Current '-The Magazines. Notices to Correspondents. Botes. THE LATE JAMES DIXON, F.R.C.S. (See ante, p. 60.) The Editor of 'N. & Q.' has asked for biographical particulars as to this well-known contributor to the paper; and although my own acquaintance with Mr. Dixon is only of recent date, and my knowledge of his former career is entirely second-hand, I feel constrained to pen a few lines in honour of one of the most lovable of men, and one of the most faithful friends and contributors to the 'New English Dictionary,' whose death, even at the ripe age of eighty-two, I feel as a personal bereavement. James Dixon was a Londoner, and was born, I believe, in Mecklenburg Square, on 22 December, 1813. He was thus only eighteen months old at the date of the Battle of Waterloo, and so was just too young to have any memories of the great war, though not too young to remember the time when it was still the great event of recent history and the constant theme of tale and conversation. He was educated at private schools at Tooting and elsewhere in Surrey, and, having chosen a medical career, entered at St. Thomas's Hospital, where he qualified for his profession. He was at one time assistant surgeon at St. Thomas's, and having specially devoted himself to the diseases and imperfections of the eye, he was for many years consulting surgeon to the London Ophthalmic Hospital. Не nineteenth century. I am told that he supplied I see |