By Dorothy Nixon

5) Big Bones and Broad Shoulders:

My dad was big and tall because his father, Yorkshireman Robert Nixon, was big and tall. My father attended St. Bees in County Durham. (So did Mr. Bean, Rowan Atkinson, apparently.) Well, I contacted them and they sent me a short record. He was a good student, involved in The Shakespeare Society etc but an even better athlete, captain of all the teams. My Aunt says he was a musical prodigy as a child, but I never saw him touch an instrument of any kind