• Title
  [Rev. Francis Russell Nixon D.D.] / artist unknown
• Call number
  P3/118
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 184-?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  456996
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 crayon on paper - 32 x 38 cm. (oval mount)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Church of England bishop, was born on 1 August 1803, the second son of Rev. Robert Nixon, D.D., F.R.S., of North Cray, Kent, England. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, London, and at Oxford (B.A., 1827; M.A., 1841; D.D., 1842). Graduating third class in classics he was made a probationary fellow of St John's College.reachers' at Canterbury Cathedral and chaplain to the archbishop. In January 1843, to provide funds for a chapel of ease at Ash, he published Lectures, Historical, Doctrinal and Practical, on the Catechism of the Church of England; it went through at least six editions. On 21 August 1842 Nixon was appointed first bishop of Tasmania and three days later was consecrated in Westminster Abbey with four other bishops -- R. Barrett, 'Nixon, Francis Russell (1803 - 1879)', Australian Dictionary of Biography (online), Volume 2, Melbourne University Press, 1967
• General note
  
  No title, date or signature on work
• Name
  Nixon, Francis Russell, 1803-1879
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  ministers of religion
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8808030

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