Name John Dixon | ||
John Henry Dixon (born 3 March 1954 in Bournemouth) is a former English cricketer, publisher and author. He is the great-nephew of Gee Langdon.
As a cricketer, he played for Oxford University, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and many other teams including Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk's XI. He appeared in sixteen first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm medium fast. His best bowling performance of five for 44 was achieved on his first-class debut for Gloucestershire against Oxford University in 1973, which placed him 7th. in the national bowling averages that year. He was one of the bowlers during the then world-record second-wicket stand between Rohan Kanhai and John Jameson at Edgbaston in 1974.
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, a spoof cookery book, contained unfeasible recipes of a surreal, whimsical or gruesome nature. He subsequently contributed to The Marmite Cookbook and The Bumper Book of Marmite. Playwright Dougie Blaxland cites him as a major influence.