author
C. F. Dixon-Johnson
1871–1939
Known for writing about Armenian history and politics during the First World War era, this early-20th-century British author approached the subject with the perspective of a soldier as well as a public commentator.
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The Armenians
by C. F. Dixon-Johnson
About the author
Cuthbert Francis Dixon-Johnson (1871–1939) is best remembered for The Armenians (1916) and the pamphlet The Armenian Question; Its Meaning to Great Britain (published around 1914). Records for those works identify him as C. F. Dixon-Johnson or Cuthbert Francis Dixon-Johnson and place him in a period when Armenian affairs were being intensely debated in Britain.
Other surviving records suggest he had a military background. A Durham record describes him in 1899 as a lieutenant in the Inniskilling Dragoons, and a Library of Congress description of a Turco-Italian War album names him as director of a British Red Cross hospital in Tripoli. Those details help explain the practical, political tone of his writing, which reads less like distant scholarship and more like the work of someone engaged with imperial and wartime affairs.
Very little biographical material about him appears to be widely available today, so much of his life remains obscure. What can be said with confidence is that he left behind a small body of nonfiction centered on Armenia and the wider Near Eastern question, and that his books continue to circulate through public-domain and library collections.