Notes
His biography on the college website states: ‘John Vibart was born in Wakefield in 1897 to William Vibart Dixon, a solicitor in Wakefield, Deputy Chief Clerk of the West Riding of the Yorkshire County Council, and his wife Muriel (nee Langhorne) of Westfield House, Thorner, Leeds. John went to Summer Fields in January 1910, and on to Shrewsbury in the autumn of that year. At Shrewsbury he was in School House and played cricket for the 2nd XI. He won the Bentley Elocution Prize for three years in succession.
After leaving Shrewsbury in 1915 he did not take up his place at Christ Church, but instead joined 3rd North Midland Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery and was involved with ammunition column work. He then transferred to 2nd Brigade, to which he was gazetted on 4 September 1916, he fought in France and was killed in action at Gommercourt in March 1917. John’s name is recorded on the Leeds University Roll of Honour.