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The Dixie Baronets are the holders of the one Dixie baronetcy, 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. 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 1630), great-nephew of the first Sir Wolstan Dixie, and father of the 1st Baronet. Knighted by James 1 in 1604, then of Appleby Magna. In 1608 he moved to Market Bosworth in 1608 and commenced work on the original manor house and Dixie Grammar School. In 1614 he was High Sheriff of Leicestershire and in 1625 its representative to Parliament.