Notes
Andrew Herbert Dixon was born at Guildford in Surrey on 26 January 1918, the son of Elsie (née Simpson) and William Dixon, a barrister at law of Innerpeffray Lodge, Crieff, Perthshire. He was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond from 1931 to 1935 and entered Worcester College, Oxford on 9 October 1936. He achieved third class honours in Jurisprudence in 1939. While at Worcester, Andrew Dixon was a member of the Worcester College Boat Club and rowed in the 2nd Torpid and 2nd Eight in 1937, and the 1st Torpid and 1st Eight in 1938.
Andrew Dixon was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment, but was diagnosed with cancer in 1943 while serving in Malta. He underwent an operation there, and was treated with X-ray therapy but to no avail. He was evacuated to Edinburgh where he died on 5 October 1943, aged 25.
In his will he left the sum of £50 per annum for an Exhibition in either Classics or History to students at Worcester College, to be offered in the first instance to persons educated at Glenalmond College.
Andrew Dixon is commemorated on the war memorials at Glenalmond College, the Inner Temple and at Worcester College, Oxford.