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About John Henry Dixon
- John Henry Dixon (born 3 March 1954) is an English former first-class cricketer active from 1973 to 1988 who played for Gloucestershire, Oxford University and Wiltshire.
- He was born in Bournemouth.
- He appeared in 16 first-class matches as a right-handed batsman who bowled right arm medium-fast pace.
- He scored 77 runs with a highest score of 13* and held six catches.
- He took 21 wickets with a best analysis of five for 44.
- He was one of the bowlers during the then world record partnership for the second wicket between Warwickshire's Rohan Kanhai and John Jameson at Edgbaston in 1974.
- Dixon is the great-nephew of Gee Langdon and became a publisher and author.Between 1984 and 1992 he was the publisher of The Cricket Diary, which included, amongst much other cricket information and records, weekly quotations, illustrations and most well-known cricketers' birthdays.
- His First Peel The Otter, a spoof cookery book, contained unfeasible recipes of a surreal, whimsical or gruesome nature.
- He subsequently contributed to The Marmite Cookbook and The Bumper Book of Marmite.
- Playwright Dougie Blaxland cites him as a major influence. He plays bass guitar in The Disintegraters with, amongst others, Henry Marsh of the band Sailor, Stuart Ryan and Stephen (Austin) Clark
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