Dixon, Henry Hall (1822–1870)

English sporting writer. Using the pseudonym ‘the Druid’, he began to write for the Sporting Magazine, in which he published three novels: The Post and the Paddock (1856), Silk and Scarlet (1859), and Scott and Sebright (1862). Other writings were Field and Fern (1865), an account of the herds and flocks of Scotland; Saddle and Sirloin (1870), an account of those of England, and The Law of the Farm (1858), a legal treatise.