Harold Baily Dixon
| Harold Baily Dixon | |
|---|---|
| Born |
11 August 1852 Marylebone, London, England |
| Died | 18 September 1930 (aged 78) Lytham, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | chemist |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Vernon Harcourt |
| Notable awards | Royal Medal (1913) |
Harold Baily Dixon CBE FCS FRS (11 August 1852 – 18 September 1930) was a British chemist. He was also an amateur footballer who appeared for Oxford University in the 1873 FA Cup Final.
Born in Marylebone,London, England, he attended Westminster School from 1865 to 1871, and then studied at Christ Church, Oxford under Vernon Harcourt, graduating as B.A. with First Class Honours in Natural Science in 1875 and M.A. in 1878.
Dixon was Millard Lecturer at Trinity College, Oxford from 1879 to 1886, and from 1881 to 1886 Duke of Bedford Lecturer at Balliol College, where he became Fellow in 1886.
On the opening of the first women's colleges in 1879, Dixon was instrumental in allowing women to attend physics lectures. Margaret Seward was a prominent beneficiary of Dixon's proposition.
Dixon served as Professor of Chemistry, succeeding Sir H.E. Roscoe, at Owen's College, Manchester from 1886 to 1922. He was chairman of governors of the Royal Technical College, Salford, Lancashire from 1916, Chairman of Salford Higher Education Committee from 1919, and of the Selective Committee for the North-West District of the Ministry of Labour from 1922.
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