Dix, John Ross, 1800?-1865 (Personal Name)

His Jack Ariel, 1859: t.p. (Author of the "Post captain")

His A hand book for Lake Memphremagog, 1859: t.p. (John Ross Dix)

NUC pre-56 (hdg.: Dix, John, 1800?-1865?; usage: John Dix; John Ross Dix; A Looker-on; A Middle-aged man; Author of the "Post captain," "Travels in America," "Life of Chatterton")

BM cat (Dix, afterwards Ross (John))

DNB (John Dix, alias John Ross(1800?-1865?); biographer of Chatterton; b. in Bristol, where he was a surgeon; emigrated to America about 1846)

New York Times, 11/10/1865: p. 4(Death of J. Ross Dix; Mr. Geo. Spencer Phillips, a late resident of Brooklyn well known in literary circles under nom de plume of J. Ross Dix, d. last evening in very destitute circumstances; contributor to literary periodicals; native of Bristol, Eng.)

MWA/NAIP files (hdg.: Dix, John Ross, 1800?-1865; usage: John Ross Dix; John Dix; J.D.; A looker-on; A middle-aged man; A cosmopolitan; Author of Pen and ink sketches; Author of The post captain; note: pseud. of George Spencer Phillips; name John Dix used primarily on earlier works, published in England; name John Ross Dix used on later works, published in America)