Dixon Denham
Dixon Denham (January 1st 1786, London - May 8th 1828, Freetown) is a British officer .
He visited 1822 with 1825 the Bournou, the Lac Chad, and the country of the Fellatah S, was then named director of Sierra Leone on the Western coast of Africa, and there died of the fevers in 1828.
It had published in 1825 in London the relation between its voyages and that of Hugh Clapperton: it was translated by Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès.
It collects several new species. The Outarde of Denham is dedicated to him by John George Children (1777-1852) and Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785-1840) in 1826.
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