Sir Frederick Dixon Dixon-Hartland, 1st Baronet, (1 May 1832 – 1909) was an antiquary, banker and a

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politician who sat in the

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from 1881 to 1909.

Life and work

Hartland was born in a small rural village,

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, or close to

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the son of Nathaniel Hartland and his wife Eliza Dixon of dissenting Christian sects, termed at the time nonconformists. He was educated at nearby

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and in

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at Clapham Grammar School.William Retlaw Williams ''The Parliamentary History of the County of Worcester'' 2008 Hartland was a traveller — he published ''Tapographia; or a collection of tombs of royal and distinguished families, collected during a tour of Europe''. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Fellow of the

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in 1854. He adopted the prefix of Dixon to his surname in 1861. In 1875, he purchased land at Middleton-on-Sea and Felpham in Sussex in addition to his other home and agricultural holding at the time ''The Oaklands'', Charlton Kings. In business, he was a partner in Woodbridge Lace & Co and the Uxbridge Old Bank, a bank of a main historic market town in

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for which town and its many nearby parishes he was MP – Middlesex centred on today's western and central London and for most purposes was abolished in 1965. In 1891, he sold the Smithfield Bank to Birmingham and Midland Bank Dixon Hartland stood unsuccessfully at

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in 1880. He was elected as MP for

the next year. He donated chancel gates and screens to St Mary's church also known as Cheltenham Minster at nearby

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. In 1885 he stood at

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with the same party and held the seat until his death in 1909. He was a

. Dixon Hartland was a County Alderman for Middlesex in 1889, a Deputy Lieutenant for the

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, and a justice of the peace for Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Middlesex. He was created a

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on 3 October 1892 In 1895 he was appointed Chairman of the

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. Dixon-Hartland was the first president of

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in 1904. He married his second wife, 28 years his junior, in 1895 Agnes Chichester Christie. His latter-life London home was at 14 Chesham Place,

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,Such as at the 1901 census and in the 1895 to 1909 annual London Electoral Rolls as Frederick Dixon Dixon-Hartland (and in some cases plus: ''Bart. M P'' (baronet, member of Parliament). and he died on 15 November 1909 at

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, East Sussex. His probate was resworn by his widow the next year at .https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk Calendar of Probates and Administrations

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dixon-Hartland, Frederick, 1832 births 1909 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society Deputy lieutenants of the City of London Members of Middlesex County Council