DIXON, MARMADUKE JOHN (1832-1918) was a son of Marmaduke Dixon (q.v.), and was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch. He was a successful farmer and a firm advocate of irrigation, being for some years chairman of the Waimakariri-Ashley water supply board. Between 1885 and 1890, in response to the stimulus given to mountaineering in New Zealand by the visit of the Rev W. S. Green, Dixon accompanied G. E. Mannering on adventurous work in the Southern Alps, including several attempts on the virgin Mount Cook, which he ascended to within 100 feet of the summit. In 1890 they canoed down the Tasman river and Lake Pukaki into the Waitaki. He was one of the founders of the New Zealand Alpine Club in 1891. Dixon married in 1897 Mabel Courage (Amberley). He died on 31 Jul 1918.

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G. E. Mannering, With Axe and Rope in the New Zealand Alps (1891); Christ's Coll. List; Lyttelton Times, 1 Aug 1918.

Reference: Volume 1, page 122

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