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Dixie Grammar School
Dixie Grammar School is an independent school in Market Bosworth.
The earliest records of the School's existence date from 1320, but the school was re-founded in 1601 under the will of an Elizabethan merchant and Lord Mayor of London, Sir Wolstan Dixie, by his great-nephew Sir Wolstan Dixie of Appleby Magna, who came to live in Market Bosworth in 1608.
The most distinguished of the School's former pupils is Thomas Hooker, founder of Hartford, Connecticut, known as the Father of American Democracy. Samuel Johnson, moralist, poet and author of the famous dictionary, taught at the school in the mid-eighteenth century.
The main building of today's school was built in 1828 and faces the market square of Market Bosworth.
Grade II listed. Link
The Dixie Grammar provides education for the following ages of children:
The Pippins Nursery School (ages 3–4)– in Wellsborough
The Dixie Grammar Junior School (ages 5–10) – in Wellsborough
The Dixie Grammar School (ages 10–18) – in Market Bosworth
The earliest records of the School's existence date from 1320, but the school was re-founded in 1601 under the will of an Elizabethan merchant and Lord Mayor of London, Sir Wolstan Dixie, by his great-nephew Sir Wolstan Dixie of Appleby Magna, who came to live in Market Bosworth in 1608.
The most distinguished of the School's former pupils is Thomas Hooker, founder of Hartford, Connecticut, known as the Father of American Democracy. Samuel Johnson, moralist, poet and author of the famous dictionary, taught at the school in the mid-eighteenth century.
The main building of today's school was built in 1828 and faces the market square of Market Bosworth.
Grade II listed. Link
The Dixie Grammar provides education for the following ages of children:
The Pippins Nursery School (ages 3–4)– in Wellsborough
The Dixie Grammar Junior School (ages 5–10) – in Wellsborough
The Dixie Grammar School (ages 10–18) – in Market Bosworth
by N Chadwick
Created: Sun, 22 Nov 2015, Updated: Sun, 17 Jan 2016
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