18th century to 1970s Dublin scrapbook
Signature: Medium: Dimensions: Provenance: Exhibited: Literature: Ex Libris FE Dixon with annotated contents, 4to. A miscellany of clippings on various subjects relating to the city and environs. Unique. Fred Dixon, born in 1913, grew up in Peterborough, England.... . A mathematics graduate from Cambridge, he migrated to Ireland and became one of the country’s first professional meteorologists. By the mid-sixties he was appointed head of the analysis and forecast office and ten years later took charge of the meteorological division, where he was responsible for weather records. Dixon’s interests extended far beyond his work; he was a distinguished philatelist, postal historian and numismatist, President of the Irish Philatelic Society, a founding member of the Post Card Society, an inveterate writer of letters to The Irish Times, with many articles published worldwide on his collecting interests. Fred Dixon died in Dublin in September 1988 more
18th century to 1970s Dublin scrapbook
Signature: Medium: Dimensions: Provenance: Exhibited: Literature: Ex Libris FE Dixon with annotated contents, 4to. A miscellany of clippings on various subjects relating to the city and environs. Unique. Fred Dixon, born in 1913, grew up in Peterborough, England.... . A mathematics graduate from Cambridge, he migrated to Ireland and became one of the country’s first professional meteorologists. By the mid-sixties he was appointed head of the analysis and forecast office and ten years later took charge of the meteorological division, where he was responsible for weather records. Dixon’s interests extended far beyond his work; he was a distinguished philatelist, postal historian and numismatist, President of the Irish Philatelic Society, a founding member of the Post Card Society, an inveterate writer of letters to The Irish Times, with many articles published worldwide on his collecting interests. Fred Dixon died in Dublin in September 1988 more
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