Charles Harvey Dixon

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Charles Harvey Dixon (1862-1923), was a British politician.

Born at Watlington, Oxfordshire, Dixon was the son of Dr Henry Dixon, coroner for South Oxfordshire.

Charles Harvey Dixon, of Gunthorpe, Leicestershire, had transferred from Warminster Grammar School to Abingdon School in September 1878. He unsuccessfully contested the Harborough constituency, Leicestershire, in 1900, 1904 (by-election) and 1906. He was elected Conservative member for Boston in January 1910 but retired from Parliament in November 1918. He was again elected Conservative member for the Rutland and Stamford Division of Lincolnshire in November 1922, sitting until his early death in September 1923. His Parliamentary interests were agriculture and finance.