Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1897, Wellington

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Mr. William Guy Nixon, Chief Engineer of the s.s. “Star of Victoria,” was born in 1842 in London, where he was educated. He was apprenticed to the London and South Western Railway Company as an engineer. Mr. Nixon has been at sea for the past thirty years, for fourteen of which he was in the Great Western passenger line, trading to New York. He joined the “Star of Victoria” in 1890, taking the position he now holds. He is a Freemason, belonging to the Bristol Lodge, E.C. He is married, and has a family of four daughters and one son. Mr. Nixon has invented and patented some ingenious contrivances, chief among which are the patent floating metallic packing, the automatic weighing machine, self-lubricating gin, and Nixon's diagrameters.