Sir Percy Dixwell-Oxenden, 10th Baronet

Sir Percy Dixwell-Oxenden
Bt JP
Born
Percy Dixwell Nowell Oxenden

(1838-06-06)6 June 1838
Ashford, Kent
Died12 July 1924(1924-07-12) (aged 86)
Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex
Spouse
Isabella Finch-Hatton
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(m. 1868; died 1924)​
Children3
Parent(s)Montagu Oxenden
Elizabeth Wilson
RelativesSir Henry Oxenden, 7th Baronet (grandfather)
Philip Oxenden Papillon (cousin)

Sir Percy Dixwell Nowell Dixwell-Oxenden, 10th Baronet JP (6 June 1838 – 12 July 1924) was an English baronet, magistrate and Captain in the Royal East Kent Mounted Yeomanary. He was the last member of his family to own the Broome Park estate, which he sold to Earl Kitchener in 1911.[1]

Early life

Portrait of his grandfather, Sir Henry Oxenden, Bt, by James Godsell Middleton

Percy was born on 6 June 1838 at Eastwell Rectory, Ashford, Kent. He was a son of the Rev. Montagu Oxenden (1799–1880), the Rector of Eastwell and Luddenham, and Elizabeth Wilson (a daughter of Robert Wilson). After his mother's death in 1862, his father married Elizabeth, widow of James Marjoribanks of Sandgate, in 1869. His elder brother was Sir Henry Montagu Oxenden, 9th Baronet.[2]

His paternal grandparents were Sir Henry Oxenden, 7th Baronet and the former Mary Graham (the daughter of Col. John Graham, of St. Lawrence House, near Canterbury; former Lieutenant governor of Georgia).[3]

Percy matriculated at the University of Oxford on 15 October 1856 aged 18.[4]

Career

Broome Park principal facade

In 1890, Percy assumed the prefix surname of Dixwell. He was a Justice of the Peace for Kent. He was a member of the St James's Club in London.[5]

Upon the death of his elder brother in 1895, he succeeded as the 10th Baronet Oxenden and inherited the family seat, Broome Park in Kent.[2] His brother had succeeded their uncle, Sir Henry Oxenden, 8th Baronet, who died without issue.[6] He was a Captain of the Royal East Kent Yeoman Cavalry.[5][7]

Sir Percy sold the Broome Park estate to Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener in 1911.[1][8] The well known Oxenden Collection was passed down to his children, including his daughter Muriel, Lady Capel Cure, who held a large sale of works from Broome Park in Barham, Kent in 1931.[9] Thereafter they lived at Craigmore in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.[10]

Personal life

Photograph of his wife, Isabella Finch-Hatton, by Camille Silvy, 1861

On 26 November 1868, Percy married Isabella Finch-Hatton (1845–1927), youngest daughter of The Hon. Rev. Daniel Heneage Finch-Hatton, the Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria and Rector of Weldon, Northamptonshire,[11][12] and Louisa Greville (a daughter of Hon. Robert Fulke Greville and Louisa, 2nd Countess of Mansfield).[13] Her brother, the Rev. William Robert Finch-Hatton, married Percy's sister, Agnes Graham Oxenden.[14] Together, they were the parents of:[15]

  • Muriel Elizabeth Anna Louisa Dixwell-Oxenden (1869–1968), who married Sir Edward Henry Capel Cure, son of the Rev. Edward Cure and Gertrude Louisa Jane Selwin (daughter of Sir John Thomas Selwin-Ibbetson, 6th Baronet and sister to Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, 1st Baron Rookwood), in 1889.[15]
  • Basil Heneage Dixwell-Oxenden (1874–1919),[10] who served in the Second Boer War from 1900 to 1902; he died unmarried.[15]
  • Gwendoline Isobel Dixwell-Oxenden (1880–1960), who married Commander Percy Frederick Griffiths of the Royal Navy, son of J. H. F. Griffifths of The Grove, Whitchurch, Cardiff, in 1906.[15]

After a bout of bronchitis, Sir Percy died on 12 July 1924 at F. J. Handley's bungalow on Ship Road in Burnham-on-Crouch.[16] After a service at St Mary's Church, he was buried at St Mary the Virgin Churchyard in Wingham, Kent.[7] As he was predeceased by his only son, the baronetcy, created in May 1678 for Henry Oxenden, became extinct upon his death.[17]

References

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  2. ^ a b Lodge, Edmund (1907). The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire for 1907. Kelly's Directories. p. 1385. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  3. ^ Chapman, John Henry (1886). The Register Book of Marriages Belonging to the Parish of St George, Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex. Mitchell and Hughes. p. 381. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  4. ^ Foster, Joseph (1891). Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 : Their Parentage, Birthplace and Year of Birth, with a Record of Their Degrees : Being the Matriculation Register of the University. Joseph Foster. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  5. ^ a b Walford, Edward (1 January 1890). The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. p. 1027. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  6. ^ Burke, John; Burke, John Bernard (1858). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. H. Colburn. p. 772. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  7. ^ a b "Funeral of Sir Percy Dixwell Oxenden". Dover Express. 1 August 1924. p. 7. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  8. ^ "A Brief History of Broome Park & Lord Kitchener" (PDF). www.broomepark.co.uk. Broome Park Golf Club. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  9. ^ Arshad, Yasmin (22 August 2019). Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-350-05897-2. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  10. ^ a b Burke, Bernard; Burke, Ashworth Peter (1923). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council and Knightage. Burke Publishing Company. p. 1728. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  11. ^ Debrett (1865). Debrett's Illustrated Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ... Bosworth.
  12. ^ "List of eminent persons who have died during the last twelve months (1866 section)". The Illustrated London Almanack. Illustrated London News. 1867. p. 32.
  13. ^ Lords, Great Britain Parliament House of (1863). Journals of the House of Lords. H.M. Stationery Office.
  14. ^ Lodge, Edmund (1907). The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire for 1907. Kelly's Directories.
  15. ^ a b c d A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage, and Companionage. Harrison & Sons. 1917. p. 1609. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  16. ^ "DEATH OF A BARONET". Essex Chronicle. 18 July 1924. p. 8. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  17. ^ Debrett's Illustrated Peerage and Baronetage, Titles of Courtesy and the Knightage. Kelly's Directories. 1925. p. 570. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
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