sketcher, was born in Hobart Town on 30 April 1844, sixth of the eight children of Bishop Francis Russell Nixon and his second wife, Anna Maria Nixon . His undated sketch of the Nixon family’s third Tasmanian residence, Bishopstowe, at New Town outside Hobart, is held in the house – now called Runnymede and occupied by the National Trust (Tas.). It was presumably drawn before February 1862 while the family was still living there. Nixon married Adela Russell Walker, a sister of Anna Frances Walker , in 1871. He died at the Walker family home, Rhodes, Concord (Tas.), aged forty-one.
