Horace Harcourt Dixon

[Tom Piper]

Hi, May I refer you to this thread http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=656106.0

I have found the above records in newspapers referring to the sudden death of a Lieutenant Commander Horace Harcourt Dixon at Leigh On Sea in August 1931.
Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 28 August 1931
Southend Police, called on Saturday to a houseboat on Leigh Marshes found Mr. Horace Harcourt Dixon, a retired naval officer dead on the floor. He had been under a doctor for a considerable time for heart trouble.
Northampton Mercury - Friday 28 August 1931
Lieut.-Commander Horace Harcourt Dixon, R. N. retired, aged 55, who lived alone in a houseboat on the marshes at Leigh-on-Sea, was found dead on the floor of his cabin by the police on Saturday.

I was wondering if there was an inquest into his death mindful of his cause of death? Thinking that a local library might help or local newspaper-can anyone suggest anything further?

Tom
 

[nanny jan]

A copy of his death certificate will show if there was an Inquest, name of Coroner etc., it will also show the cause of death.


Nanny Jan

[Tom Piper]

nanny jan

Good idea, am sending for one to check to see if it is the right man though it would seem so.

Tom

[amondg]

The National Archives has his Naval history, gives date of birth as 30 August 1878.

[Tom Piper]

amondg
Yes I know about that record, it's quoted on "Lives of the First World War", Ancestry has this record which I have used in my blog about the Dixon family-Horace Harcourt Dixon's application to be a member of the Institute of Engineers

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK
1906: DIXON, Horace Harcourt
Received 1 Aug 1906, Mechanical Engineer, 13 years in Total
President, Dixon Steam System Company 169, S Canal Street, Chicago, Ill. US America
88 St James Street, London, SW
Age 31, born 31 August 1876, Bournemouth

Free BMD has this record: Births Dec 1876   (>99%)
Dixon    Horace        Christchurch    2b   601

So only a birth record will prove it one way or the other.

nanny jan there wasn't an inquest; the death record shows that he died of natural causes, the coroner stated he died of heart disease after a post mortem with no inquest.

tom