The Dyke Baronetcy, of Horeham in the County of Sussex, is a title in the

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. It was created on 3 March 1677 for Thomas Dyke, Commissioner of Public Accounts and Member of Parliament for

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

and

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. The 2nd Baronet married Anne Hart, daughter and heiress of

Percival Hart Percival Hart (7 May 1666 – 27 October 1738) of Lullingstone, Kent was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1710–1715. Hart was the son of Percival Hart of Lullingstone and his wife Ann and was educated in the law at ...

. In 1836 the 5th Baronet unsuccessfully claimed the barony of Braye, of which peerage he was a co-heir through the Hart family. The 7th Baronet was a successful

Conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization i ...

politician. Percyvall Hart Dyke (1872–1952), grandson of Reverend Thomas Hart Dyke, second son of the 5th Baronet, was a

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in the

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. His son Trevor Hart Dyke was a

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in the

Queen's Royal Regiment The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was a line infantry regiment of the English and later the British Army from 1661 to 1959. It was the senior English line infantry regiment of the British Army, behind only the Royal Scots in the British Ar ...

David Hart Dyke Captain David Hart Dyke (born 3 October 1938) is a retired Royal Navy officer, former aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II, and former commanding officer of , which was sunk during the Falklands War. Background and education Hart Dyke, a member ...

(b. 1938), son of Reverend Eric Hart Dyke, son of the aforementioned Colonel Percyvall Hart Dyke, is a retired

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in the

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and commanded during the

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. His daughter

Miranda Hart Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke (born 14 December 1972) is an English actress and writer. Following drama training at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, Hart began writing material for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and making appearances in va ...

is a well known writer, comedian, and actress.

Dyke family

The Dyke family originated at Dykesfield, Cumberland and branches later settled at Henfield in Sussex and at Cranbrook in Kent. Reginald de Dike of Cranbrook was

Sheriff of Kent The high sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown (prior to 1974 the office previously known as sheriff)."Sheriffs appointed for a county or Greater London shall be known as high sheriffs, and any reference in any enactment or instrum ...

in 1355. Thomas Dyke (d.1632) of Cranbrook married Joan Walsh, heiress of the manor of Horeham in the parish of Waldron in Sussex, which thus passed to the Dykes.

Somerset branch

Another prominent branch of the Dyke family, which uses the same arms, was a major landholder in Somerset in the 17th and 18th centuries, with branches seated at Tetton, Holnicote and Pixton. The heiress of all these branches was Elizabeth Dyke (d.1753), daughter of Thomas Dyke of Tetton, who married

Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet (14 August 1722 – 24 February 1785) of Killerton in Devon and Petherton Park in Somerset, was Member of Parliament for Devon, 1746–1747, for Somerset, 1767–1768, and was High Sheriff of Somerset in 1751. ...

(1722-1785), of

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in Devon and

Petherton Park Petherton Park (also known as North Petherton Park or Newton Park) was a Deer park around North Petherton within the English county of Somerset. The origins are unclear but the area was part of an earlier Royal Forest stretching from the River P ...

in Somerset, who in accordance with the terms of his wife's "princely inheritance" adopted the additional surname of Dyke.Acland, Anne. A Devon Family: The Story of the Aclands. London and Chichester: Phillimore, 1981, pp. 15–17

Present day

In 2015 the holder of the title was the 10th Baronet, who lives in Canada, and who in 2008 stood in the 40th Canadian General Election as the

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candidate for

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. He is unmarried and the

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to the baronetcy is his first cousin

Tom Hart Dyke Thomas Guy "Tom" Hart Dyke (born 12 April 1976) is an English horticulturist, author and plant hunter from the Hart Dyke family. He is the son and heir of Guy and Sarah Hart Dyke at the family seat of Lullingstone Castle, Eynsford, Kent. He is t ...

Dyke baronets, of Horsham, Sussex (1677)

Sir Thomas Dyke, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Dyke, 1st Baronet (c. 1650 – 31 October 1706) was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1685 and 1698. Dyke was the son of Sir Thomas Dyke and his wife Catharine Bramstone, daughter of Sir John Bramstone ...

(–1706) *Sir Thomas Dyke, 2nd Baronet (c. 1700–1756) *Sir John Dixon Dyke, 3rd Baronet (1732–1810) *Sir Thomas Dyke, 4th Baronet (1763–1831) *Sir Percival Hart Dyke, 5th Baronet (1767–1846) *Sir Percyvall Hart Dyke, 6th Baronet (1799–1875) **Lieutenant Percyvall Hart Dyke (1836–1855) *

Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet PC, DL, JP (7 August 1837 – 3 July 1931) was an English Conservative politician and tennis pioneer. Background and education The second son of Sir Percival Hart Dyke, 6th Baronet and Elizabeth Wells, Ha ...

(1837–1931) **Percyvall Hart Dyke (1871–1922) **William Montagu Hart Dyke (1877–1877) *Sir Oliver Hamilton Augustus Hart Dyke, 8th Baronet (1885–1969) *Sir Derek William Hart Dyke, 9th Baronet (1924–1987), son. *Sir David William Hart Dyke, 10th Baronet (born 1955), son. The

to the baronetcy is Thomas Guy Hart Dyke (born 1976), first cousin of the 10th baronet and grandson of the eighth baronet.

Notes

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, *{{Rayment-bt , date=February 2013 * The Hamilton Spectator
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26 September 2008. Dyke 1677 establishments in England