John Henry Dixon

John Henry Dixon (born 3 March 1954) is an English former first-class cricketer active from 1973 to 1988 who played for Gloucestershire, Oxford University and Wiltshire. He was born in Bournemouth. He appeared in 16 first-class matches as a right-handed batsman who bowled right arm medium-fast pace. He scored 77 runs with a highest score of 13* and held six catches. He took 21 wickets with a best analysis of five for 44.^[1] He was one of the bowlers during the then world record partnership for the second wicket between Warwickshire's Rohan Kanhai and John Jameson at Edgbaston in 1974.^[2] Dixon is the great-nephew of Gee Langdon and became a publisher and author.^[3]

Between 1984 and 1992 he was the publisher of The Cricket Diary, which included, amongst much other cricket information and records, weekly quotations, illustrations and most well-known cricketers' birthdays. His First Peel The Otter,^[4] a spoof cookery book, contained unfeasible recipes of a surreal, whimsical or gruesome nature.^[5] He subsequently contributed to The Marmite Cookbook^[6] and The Bumper Book of Marmite.^[7] Playwright Dougie Blaxland cites him as a major influence.

He plays bass guitar in The Disintegraters^[8] with, amongst others, Henry Marsh of the band Sailor, Stuart Ryan ^[9] and Stephen (Austin) Clark ^[10]

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