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.