Charles Nix
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| Born | 25 August 1873 Crawley, West Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 3 March 1956 (aged 82) Crawley, West Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sports shooting | ||||||||||||||
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Charles George Ashburner Nix (25 August 1873 – 3 March 1956) was a British sport shooter who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics, where he won a silver medal.[1]
Nix was educated at Eton College and the University of Cambridge.[2] In the 1908 Olympics he won a silver medal in the team single-shot running deer event, was 10th in the single-shot running deer event and 11th in the double-shot running deer event.[3]
A member of the Nix family, he was the son of John Hennings Nix, one of the partners in the London private bank Fuller, Banbury, Nix & Co, and Sarah Ashburner, an Indian-born wealthy heiress from Calcutta (now Kolkata).[2][4] He inherited the family estate Tilgate House in Crawley from his older brother John Ashburner Nix in 1927, but sold the estate in 1939 as the family lived primarily in London. He was the great-grandfather of Alexander Nix.
References
- ^ "Sports Reference: Charles Nix". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
- ^ a b Pine, L. G. (1939). "Nix of Tilgate". Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry (16th ed.). p. 1686.
- ^ "Charles Nix". Olympedia. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
- ^ "The History of Tilgate Estate". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
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