DIXON, HENRY HALL (1822-1870), English sporting writer over the nom de plume "The Druid," was born at Warwick Bridge, Cumberland, and educated at Rugby and at Trinity col lege, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1846. Three of his novels, Post and Paddock (1856), Silk and Scarlet (1859), and Scott and Sebright (1862) appeared in the Sporting Magazine. He also published a legal compendium entitled The Law of the Farm (5858) ; Field and Fern (1865), giving an account of the herds and flocks of Scotland; and Saddle and Sirloin (1870), treating in the same manner those of England.
See Hon. Francis Lawley, Life and Times of "The Druid"