About Stephen Mitchell Dixon
Lived 1866 – 1940 (aged 73–74). Stephen Mitchell Dixon was a civil engineer and engineer.
Stephen Mitchell Dixon OBE (1866 – 25 March 1940), was an Irish civil engineer.
Life Stephen Mitchell Dixon was born in 1866, in Dublin. He attended Trinity College Dublin (TCD), studying experimental science. In the engineering school of TCD he worked as a demonstrator to Dr W.A. Trail. While at TCD, he was a friend and neighbour of William Henry Stanley Monck.
He worked for the Portrush Electric Railway Company. The railway connected Portrush with the Giant's Causeway, and was the first to be powered by hydroelectricity. During World War I, Dixon worked with the Ministry of Munitions, serving with the Royal Engineers in France. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1937 New Year Honours. He retired to the South of France in the same year.
He died in Nice on 25 March 1940.
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