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.