Escutcheon of the Dixie baronets of Market Bosworth
Creation date
1660[1]
Status
extinct
Extinction date
1975[2]
Seat(s)
Bosworth Hall
Motto
Quod dixi dixi, What I have said, I have said; Dei gratia grata, The grace of God is grateful[1][3]
Arms
Azure, a lion rampant or, a chief of the last[3]
Crest
An ounce sejant proper ducally gorged or[3]
Bosworth Hall in Leicestershire
The Dixie Baronetcy was created in the Baronetage of England at the time of the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 for Sir Wolstan Dixie (1602–1682), a supporter of King Charles I during the English Civil War and afterwards. He was descended from a brother of Sir Wolstan Dixie, the sixteenth century Lord Mayor of London who founded the Dixie Professorship of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Cambridge. Their home was Bosworth Hall near Market Bosworth in Leicestershire. The title became extinct with the death of the thirteenth Baronet, another Sir Wolstan Dixie, in 1975.
Sir Wolstan Dixie of Market Bosworth (1576 – 25 July 1650), great-nephew of the first Sir Wolstan Dixie, and father of the 1st Baronet. Knighted by King James I in 1604, then of Appleby Magna. In 1608 he moved to Market Bosworth and began work on the original manor house and Dixie Grammar School. In 1614 he was High Sheriff of Leicestershire and in 1625 its representative in Parliament.
^ abFoster, Joseph (1881). The Baronetage and Knightage. Nichols and Sons. p. 182.
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succeeded by his uncle, the brother of the 6th and 7th Baronets Sir Alexander Dixie, 9th Baronet (1780 – December 1857), Captain RN, died 1857 and was...
grammar school Sir Wolstan Dixie, 4th Baronet (1700–1767) – most colourful[clarification needed] of the 13 Dixiebaronets Rev. Arthur Benoni Evans (1781–1854)...
great-grandmother Anne Dixie, who was possibly a daughter of Sir Wolstan Dixie, 1st Baronet (1602-1682), first of the DixieBaronets; she married the first...
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Lady Florence Caroline Dixie (née Douglas; 24 May 1855 – 7 November 1905) was a Scottish writer, war correspondent, and feminist. Her account of travelling...
almost unique to: Wolstan Dixie, Lord Mayor of London his grand-nephew Wolstan Dixie and many other Wolstans of the Dixiebaronets This disambiguation page...
was one of the few headmasters of the Dixie Grammar School to be appointed other than by the local Dixiebaronets. The Bishop of Lincoln, John Kaye, appointed...
twins Lord James Douglas and Lady Florence Dixie (who married Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie, 11th Baronet). John Sholto Douglas was a patron of sport...
joined a local gospel group dubbed the Baronets and in 1946 he was spotted by the Rev. B.L. Parks, a former Dixie Hummingbird and tapped to join a group...
United Kingdom List of baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain Leigh Rayment's list of baronets Baronetcies to which no Succession has been proved...
Florence Douglas) and was heartbroken when she married a baronet, Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie. In 1885, Lord James tried to abduct a young girl,...
1660: John Gaunt 1661: Sir Wolstan Dixie, 1st Baronet 1662: Thomas Armeston. 1663: Sir Thomas Halford, 2nd Baronet 1664: Thomas Caldecote of Catthorpe...
Douglas (1847–1865) Lord Archibald Edward Douglas (1850–1938) Lady Florence Dixie (1855–1905) Henry Alexander Douglas (1781–1837) Henry Alexander Douglas...
Lowther 26 April 1710: Edward Ashe 28 June 1712: Dixie Windsor 8 March 1717: Sir Thomas Wheate, 1st Baronet 9 March 1722: George Gregory 23 April 1746: Andrew...
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