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The Papers of John Edwin Nixon

Catalogue reference: GBR/0272/Misc. 32

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This record is about the The Papers of John Edwin Nixon dating from 1819-1927.

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Reference
GBR/0272/Misc. 32
Title
The Papers of John Edwin Nixon
Date
1819-1927
Description

The papers contain mainly correspondence relating to Nixon's publications and appointments, College and University business (including the vote for women's degrees) and other personal and academic issues including letters from Augustus Austen Leigh, Oscar Browning and George Prothero.

Related material

<p>For further papers of J. E. Nixon see BRA/2/67; OB/1/1204/C; Coll. 25/33; M.R. James D/ Huddleston, Nixon; JMK/PP/45/236; JTS/5/6.</p>

Held by
Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre
Language
English
Creator(s)
<persname>Nixon, John Edwin, 1940-1916</persname>
Physical description
10 envelopes
Administrative / biographical background

John Edwin Nixon (1840 - 1916) came up to King's College in 1859 to study Classics. He was elected a Fellow in 1862 and was Dean of the College between 1873-83 and 1885-9. From 1874 he was College Lecturer in Classics; between 1881 - 1894 he was the Gresham Professor of Rhetoric. Nixon had a keen interest in music, particularly in the establishment of the choir school, and he organised informal part-singing associations within his rooms in College.

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