Dixie baronets
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.
| Dixie baronets | |
|---|---|
Escutcheon of the Dixie baronets of Market Bosworth | |
| Creation date | 1660 |
| Status | extinct |
| Extinction date | 1975 |
| Seat(s) | Bosworth Hall |
| Motto | Quod dixi dixi, What I have said, I have said; Dei gratia grata, The grace of God is grateful |
| Arms | Azure, a lion rampant or, a chief of the last |
| Crest | An ounce sejant proper ducally gorged or |
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.