Pierson Dixon
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Education
Dixon was educated at Bedford School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Career
Dixon was the Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary from 1943 to 1948. He held the post of Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1948–1950), and he was invested as Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1950. He later held the offices of Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office (1950–1954) and Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations (1954–1960). He was involved during the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1957 and served as the ambassador to France from 1960 to 1964.
Personal life
Dixon married Alexandra Ismene Atchley in 1928 in Chelsea;[2] they had a son and two daughters. Their son, Piers, was a Conservative politician who represented Truro from 1970 to 1974 and wrote Double Diploma: The Life of Sir Pierson Dixon (1968).
Jennifer Nina Flora Mary Dixon married Peter Blaker, Baron Blaker,[3] and Ann Anastasia Corinna Helena Dixon married James Hamilton, 4th Baron Hamilton of Dalzell.[4]
His ashes are buried in the Dixon family grave on the west side of Highgate Cemetery.
Books
- The Iberians of Spain and their Relations with the Aegean World (1940) - history
- Farewell, Catullus (1953) - novel
- The Glittering Horn: Secret Memoirs of the Court of Justinian (1958) - novel
- Pauline: Napoleon's Favourite Sister (1964) - biography
References
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Further reading
- N. Piers Ludlow, ‘Dixon, Sir Pierson John (1904–1965)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online ed., Jan 2008
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- People educated at Bedford School
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- Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
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- 1904 births
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- Burials at Highgate Cemetery
- Principal Private Secretaries to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Czechoslovakia
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- 20th-century British novelists
- British male novelists
- 20th-century British diplomats