Frederick Dixon-Hartland

Sir Frederick Dixon Dixon-Hartland, 1st Baronet, (1 May 1832 – 1909) was an antiquary, banker and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1881 to 1909. Hartland was born in a small rural village, Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire, or close to Evesham, Worcestershire the son of Nathaniel Hartland and his wife Eliza Dixon of dissenting Christian sects, termed at the time nonconformists. He was educated at nearby Cheltenham College and in London at Clapham Grammar School. 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 Royal Geographical Society 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 Middlesex 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