Jump to content

Dixie baronets

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Trappist the monk (talk | contribs) at 22:28, 9 August 2023 (List of Dixie baronets of Market Bosworth: replace to-be-deprecated parameters;). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Dixie baronets
Escutcheon of the Dixie baronets of Market Bosworth
Creation date1660[1]
Statusextinct
Extinction date1975[2]
Seat(s)Bosworth Hall
MottoQuod dixi dixi, What I have said, I have said; Dei gratia grata, The grace of God is grateful[1][3]
ArmsAzure, a lion rampant or, a chief of the last[3]
CrestAn 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.

The loss of the Bosworth Estate

"Sir (Alexander) Beaumont (Churchill Dixie, 11th Baronet)'s temperament was neither rationalistic nor tolerant. Described as "a spendthrift, a hopeless gambler, a heavy drinker" he found it increasingly difficult to face up to his responsibilities as Squire of Bosworth. Lady Florence wrote "For some time past I have been fighting against the terrible consequences of my husband's immense losses on the Turf and at gambling . . It was a great blow to me to find that the last remnant of a once splendid fortune must at once go to pay this debt. Ruin ... Beau ... has been so accustomed to have heaps of money at his command that he cannot understand that it is all gone .... By selling Bosworth and the property these (debts) could be met"[4]

"Machell, from the exigencies of his profession, was unquestionably the ruin of numerous aspiring punters whose interests clashed with his own. Beaumont Dixie, whose inclinations tended towards always backing "Archer's mounts", was a notable example, and anyone who witnessed the scene in the paddock after a race where Machell's horse did not win, will not be likely to forget the ruined Baronet wringing his hands in despair, and the irate owner standing over him with "Now, Mr Bastard Beaumont Dixie, I'll teach you to back Archer's mounts"[5] Fred Archer was a champion jockey who mainly rode horses trained by Mathew and George Dawson.

The 11th Baronet sold the estate in 1885.

List of Dixie baronets of Market Bosworth

Bosworth Hall and Park, c. 1725

References

  1. ^ a b Foster, Joseph (1881). The Baronetage and Knightage. Nichols and Sons. p. 182.
  2. ^ a b "Dixie, Sir (Alexander Archibald Douglas) Wolstan". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 23 November 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Debrett, John (1839). Courthope, William (ed.). The baronetage of England (7th ed.). London: J. G. & F. Rivington. pp. 90–92.
  4. ^ Foss, Peter J. (1983). The History of Market Bosworth. Sycamore Press. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-905837-19-2.
  5. ^ Shaw, Donald (1908). London in the Sixties: With a Few Digressions. Everett. p. 105.
  6. ^ Johnson, Richard; Kimber, Edward (1771). The Baronetage of England. G. Woodfall, J. Fuller, E. Johnson, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, W. Johnston, [and 11 others in London]. p. 68.
  7. ^ Foss, Peter J. (1983). The History of Market Bosworth. Sycamore Press. pp. 87, 236–237. ISBN 978-0-905837-19-2.
  8. ^ a b c Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage 1881 (PDF). p. 393 – via staleyandco.com.
  9. ^ "Illustrated London News 1858". John Weedys collection'. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  10. ^ "To the Editor from John Sloane". The Medical Times and Gazette. 17 (437): 516. 13 November 1858. hdl:2027/mdp.39015012371442.
  11. ^ The Gentleman's magazine. v.213 1862 Jul-Dec. 1862. p. 435. hdl:2027/mdp.39015030569100.
  12. ^ "No. 26671". The London Gazette. 15 October 1895. p. 5642.
  13. ^ "No. 29111". The London Gazette (Supplement). 24 March 1915. p. 2953.
  14. ^ Black, Adam; Black, Charles (1989). "Dixie, Sir (Alexander Archibald Douglas) Wolstan". Who was who: 1971–1980. A & C Black. ISBN 978-0-7136-3227-9.
  15. ^ "Daughter of Eccentric Baronet will Challenge Ban on Title Inheritance". Lakeland Ledger. Vol. 69, no. 120. 12 February 1976. p. 8A – via Google News Archive.