Neville Dixey

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Charles Neville Douglas Dixey (born November 7, 1881 in London , † March 6, 1947 ) was a British politician (Liberal Party) and businessman. Among other things, he was temporarily chairman of Lloyd's of London .

Life and activity

Dixey was the eldest son of Charles Douglas Dixey. He was trained by private tutors.

In 1928 Dixey was elected to the governing body of Lloyd's of London. In 1931, 1924 and 1936 he held the post of chairman of this group.

In the British general election in 1922, Dixey first ran for a seat in the House of Commons , the British Parliament: He ran for the Liberal Party in the Acton constituency in Middlesx, but was defeated by the holder of the seat. In the early general election of 1923, Dixey ran in the constituency of Southampton, but could not prevail either. In the parliamentary elections of 1924 and 1929, Dixey ran twice in the constituency of Holderness, but both times had to admit defeat to the conservative candidate Samuel Savery .

At the end of the 1930s, Dixey was classified as an important target by the police organs of National Socialist Germany due to his position in British economic life: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people that the Nazi surveillance apparatus considered considered particularly dangerous or important, which is why they should be located and arrested with special priority in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the occupying troops following special SS units.

family

Since 1913 Dixey was married to Maguerite Isabel Groser, with whom he had three sons. His wife was at times the honorary secretary of the Women's Liberal Federation and a member of the Executive Committee of the Liberal Party. The son Paul was Chairman of the Board of Lloyds of London in the 1970s.

literature

  • The Liberal Year Book , 1928, p. 87.
  • Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died , Vol. IV.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Dixey on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
personal data
SURNAME Dixey, Neville
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dixey, Charles Neville Douglas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Liberal Party politician and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1947