| Authorised form of name | Dixey; Frederick Augustus (1855 - 1935); entomologist |
| Dates | 1855 - 1935 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | No. 3 New Bond Street, London, England |
| Date of birth | 09 December 1855 |
| Place of death | 19350116 |
| Date of death | 16 January 1935 |
| Occupation | entomologist |
| Research field | Entomology |
| Activity | Education:
Highgate School (1867-1874); DM (Oxford); MA
Career:
Held a Demonstratorship in Physiology at University College, London (1880-1883); returned to Oxford with John-Scott Burdon Sanderson (FRS 1867) (1883); elected Wills Medical Fellow of Wadham (1885); successively becoming Science Tutor, Junior Bursar (1891-1906); and Bursar (1906-27); succeeded H. P. Richards as Sub-Warden, holding the position along with the Burarship until his Fellowship expired (1927); elected Emeritus Fellow and later Honorary Fellow; elected to the Board of Curators of the Hope Collections at Oxford (1901) retiring after reaching the age limit in 1932; killed by a motorist whilst crossing Park Lane, London, sustaining a fracture to the skull and jaw.
Memberships:
Entomological Society of London (President 1909-1910)
Zoological Section of the British Association at Bournemouth ( President 1919)
Association of British Zoologists (Vice Chairman 1919) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/05/1910 |
| Age at election | 55 |
| Proposer | Edward Bagnall Poulton; Raphael Meldola; Roland Trimen; George James Burch; Alfred Russel Wallace; John Lubbock; Conwy Lloyd Morgan |
| Relationships | Parents: Adolphus Dixey.
Grandfather: C. W. Dixey, optician to Queen Victoria.
Spouse: Isabel Atkins (1863-1916) (1892).
Children: Harold Giles Dixey (1893–1974); Roger Nicholas Dixey (1895-1995 ). |
| General context | Expert on Pieridae (white butterflies).
Early supporter of Darwinian evolution. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 465-474, plate, by E B Poulton |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/14563478 |
| Royal Society code | NA6609 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/001163 | Dixey, Frederick Augustus | nd |
| NLB/42/403 | Copy letter from Theodore E James to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 6 June 1910 |
| NLB/45/824 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr F [Frederick] A [Augustus] Dixey FRS | 17 May 1912 |
| NLB/51/754 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Dr Frederick Augustus Dixey FRS | 17 June 1915 |
| NLB/62/371 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Frederick Augustus] Dixey, FRS | 2 February 1922 |
| NLB/42/433 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to J [Joseph] Barcroft, FRS [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 13 June 1910 |
| EC/1910/04 | Dixey, Frederick Augustus: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PP/20/24 | Paper, 'Preliminary note on the relation of the ungual corium to the periosteum of the ungual phalanx' by Frederick Augustus Dixey | 1892 |
| MC/14/264 | Letter from [Frederick Augustus] Dixey, Physiological Laboratory, University Museum, Oxford, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 3 November 1887 |
| MC/14 | Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1885-1888 |
| MC/25/259 | Letter from [Roland Trimen], 6 Church Circle, South Farnborough, Hants, to Dr Sir Archibald Geikie, President of the Royal Society | 5 February 1910 |
| NLB/45/364 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to F [Frederick] A [Augustus] Dixey FRS, Wedham College, Oxford | 21 February 1912 |
| MC/27/84 | Letter from [Frederick Augustus] Dixey, Wadham College, Oxford, to The Assistant Librarian, Royal Society, Burlington House | 23 February 1912 |