Dixon Scott

Born in 1881, Dixon Scott was educated at Breeze Hill, Walton, and worked for several years as a clerk in a Liverpool bank. Much of his writing was done at his parents' home in Marston Trussell near Market Harborough, while he also contributed literary journalism to the Liverpool Courier, The Bookman, and The Manchester Guardian.

Scott was encouraged by friends to gather some of his criticism into book form, and that work appeared after his death as Men of Letters. Contemporary readers praised the freshness and delight of his style, seeing in him a critic who approached literature with unusual zest and a strong sense of personality.

When the First World War began, he went to serve and was killed at Gallipoli in the autumn of 1915, at just thirty-four. Because his life was so short, his reputation rests on a small body of work, but that work still suggests a gifted young writer whose career was cut off far too early.