James Main Dixon

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James Main Dixon, 1902

James Main Dixon

FRSE (1856, Paisley – 27 September 1933) was a Scottish teacher and author, and an important scholar of the Scots language.[1]

Life

He was born in Paisley in Scotland the son of Rev J. M. Dixon.[2]

He graduated MA from the University of St Andrews in 1879, and was appointed scholar and tutor of philosophy there in the same year.

Dixon spent almost 12 years in Japan from 1880 to 1892. He was

Karuizawa
, and its popularization as a summer resort.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1885. His proposers were Robert Flint, John Duns, William Swan, and his brother-in-law Cargill Gilston Knott.[2]

From 1892 to 1901 he was professor of English literature at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.

In 1902, when

St. Louis World's Fair
, Dixon was made Chairman of the Library and Museum Committee of the Burns Cottage Association. He explained:

I was brought up at Ayr, the Burns neighborhood, and came from an Ayrshire family. My granduncle, John Gray, was town clerk of Ayr and secretary of the great Burns Festival of 1844, when 80,000 good people gathered in a field beside the cottage to honor the name of Ayr's most noted son.

My youth was passed in the place where the 'twa brigs,' the

Alloway Kirk, Tam O'Shanter Inn, the 'Brig o' Doon' and the Burns cottage and monument are all within a radius of three miles, and you must know that anything pertaining to Burns is indelibly impressed upon me.[3]

In 1903–1904 he was president of

Oriental studies and comparative literature. In 1906 he became editor of the West Coast Magazine
.

In 1908, he received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Dickinson College.

He died on 27 September 1933.

Writings

He compiled a Dictionary of

Tennyson
's "In Memoriam" and Manual of Modern Scots.

Family

His sister, Mary Dixon, married Cargill Gilston Knott in 1885.[2]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-7486-0754-9
    .
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  3. ^ "Burns' Birtplace Will be Rebuilt on the World's Fair Site," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 15 June 1902, 44.

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