Robert Vickers Dixon 1848-1854

Vickers Dixon was born in Dublin on 22^nd October 1812. He enrolled in Trinity College in 1827, aged 15. He graduated BA in 1833, MA in 1839, BD and DD in 1862. In 1838 he was elected a Fellow of the College. He served as Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy from 1848 to 1854. Dixon was a Fellow and professor during the Irish famine (1845-1852). In 1849 he published a book ‘A treatise on heat’. In 1853 he became rector of Clogherny parish in Co. Tyrone and sometime after that, the Archdeacon of Armagh. He died on 14^th May 1885.

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1. Thomas Ulick Sadlier (1935), Alumni Dublinenses: a register of students, graduates, professors, and Provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860), Thom Co Ltd, page 232 https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/70795b624
2. Erich Finch (2016), Three Centuries of Physics in Trinity College Dublin, Living edition.
3. Image of Trinity College and Bank from Irish Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil (1888) by Richard Lovetthttps://www.libraryireland.com/IrishPictures/I-2.php