Sir Henry Dymoke, 1st Baronet (1801 – 28 April 1865), was a British landowner and the hereditary King's Champion. Dymoke was the son of Reverend John Dymoke.''The Herald and Genealogist''

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editor (Vol. 3). He was

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in 1833. As the holder of the manor of

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, Lincolnshire, he was the hereditary King's Champion. He officiated at the coronations of

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(in place of his father who was then still alive, but as a clergyman could not act as Champion) and William IV. However, at the

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this function was dispensed with. Probably as a way of compensation, Dymoke was made a baronet, of Scrivelsby in the County of Lincoln, in 1841 (the normal honour for a King's Champion was a knighthood). Dymoke died in April 1865 when the baronetcy became extinct.

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