Francis Dixon was an English

England

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 doctor and cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 in 1885.

Dixon was born in Heanor

Heanor

Heanor is a town in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. It is northeast of Derby. According to the census of 2001 the town's population was 22,620.-History:...

, Derbyshire

Derbyshire

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, and became a doctor in practice at Eastwood, Nottinghamshire

Eastwood, Nottinghamshire

Eastwood is a former coal mining town in the Broxtowe district of Nottinghamshire, England. With a population of over 18,000, it is northwest of Nottingham, and northeast of Derby, on the border between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Mentioned in Domesday Book, it expanded rapidly during the...

. He played his one and only game for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

 in the 1885 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1885

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 when the team lost to Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

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. He appeared subsequently in occasional first class games. He played two matches for Richard Daft

Richard Daft

Richard Daft was an English cricketer. He was one of the best batsmen of his day, the peak of his first-class career being the 1860s and early 1870s...

's XI against Leicester in 1888 and 1889 and one in 1891, for Mordecai Sherwin

Mordecai Sherwin

Mordecai Sherwin was a professional footballer and cricketer who played in goal for Notts County and as a wicket-keeper for Nottinghamshire between 1878 and 1896....

's Nottinghamshire XI against the Gentlemen of England. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler

Dixon died in Eastwood aged 88.