Waynman Dixon

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Waynman Dixon (1844–1930){{cite web |title=RAILWAYS – DIXON FAMILY and CHAT MOSS. Manuscripts and printed ephemera collected by the civil engineer and Egyptologist Waynman Dixon (1844-1930), principally relating his uncle John Dixon the younger (1796-1865), chief assistant to George Stephenson and Resident Engineer during construction of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway |url=https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20139/lot/155/ |website=Bonhams |access-date=16 December 2020}} was a British engineer, known for his work on the Great Pyramid of Giza and for discovering the only Egyptian artefacts to be found inside that pyramid.

The three objects found in the Great Pyramid of Giza, the so-called "Dixon Relics", are tools: a small dolerite ball, a copper hook (both now in the British Museum in London), and a fragment of cedar wood in the Marischal Museum, Aberdeen.{{cite web |title=Great Pyramid: Lost Egyptian artefact found in Aberdeen cigar box |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-55315623 |website=BBC News |access-date=16 December 2020 |date=16 December 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Yeung |first1=Jessie |title=5,000-year-old relic from the Great Pyramid discovered in a cigar box in Scotland |url=https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/dixon-relics-great-pyramid-of-giza-discovery-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=16 December 2020 |language=en |date=16 December 2020}}{{cite web |title=Pounder (EA67818) |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA67818 |website=The British Museum |access-date=16 December 2020 |language=en}} He also discovered two shafts out from the Queen's Chamber of the Great Pyramid, similar to those that connect the King's Chamber to the outside wall of the pyramid, although these don't extend all the way.{{cite news |title=Moving photos of Cleopatra's Needle sold at auction |url=https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2008/moving-photos-of-cleopatra-s-needle-sold-at-auction/ |access-date=16 December 2020 |work=Antiques Trade Gazette |date=6 March 2008}}

Outside of his interest in Egypt, he worked as a manager of Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, a Cleveland-based shipbuilding company, alongside his brothers in Middlesbrough: he retired from the board of the company in 1917.{{cite news |title=Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. (Ltd.). |work=The Times |issue=41519 |date=2 July 1917 |page=13}} He also served as an honorary consul of Japan in later life. One brother, John Dixon (1835–1891), designed the cylinder that transported Cleopatra's Needle from Egypt to London, and Waynman himself was tasked with building it around the obelisk.{{cite web |title=Waynman Dixon |url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Waynman_Dixon |website=Graces Guide |access-date=16 December 2020}} The other brother, Sir Raylton Dixon, was also an engineer and shipbuilder, and served as Mayor of Middlesbrough.{{cite web |title=Raylton Dixon |url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Raylton_Dixon |website=Graces Guide |access-date=16 December 2020}}