Wolstan Dixie

Wolstan Dixie

Infobox Mayor
name=Wolstan Dixie
office= Lord Mayor of London
birth_date =1524
birth_place =
term_start =1585
term_end =1586
predecessor = Thomas Pullyson
successor =George Barne
party=

Sir Wolstan Dixie, born 1524 or 5, died 1594), merchant and administrator, Lord mayor of London in 1585.

Biography

The Dixie Professorship of Ecclesiastical History is one of the senior professorships in history at the University of Cambridge.

Sir Wolstan Dixie, left funds to found both scholarships and fellowships at Emmanuel College, Cambridge [ [http://staleyandco.com/Genealogy/Wills/Dixie,%20Wolstan%20Lord%20Mayor.pdf The will of Wolstan Dixie] accessed July 2007] . In 1878 the fellowships were abolished and replaced by the professorship that still bears his name.

References

ee also

*List of Lord Mayors of London
*Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History
*Appleby Magna


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