Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Nixon, Francis Russell

by Joseph Foster

Nixon, Francis Russell, 2s. Robert, of North Cray, Kent, cler. St. John's Coll., matric. 1 July, 1822, aged 18; scholar & fellow 1822-9, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1841, D.D. by decree 9 July, 1842, perp. curate Plaistow, Essex, and of Sandgate, Kent, chaplain at Naples, vicar of Ash-next-Sandwich, Kent, one of the six preachers of Canterbury, bishop of Tasmania 1842-63, rector of Bolton Percy, Yorks, 1864-5, died 7 April, 1879. See Robinson, 189.