
1851 - 1924 (73 years)
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Name |
Alexander Beaumont Churchill (11th Baronet) Dixie |
Prefix |
Sir |
Birth |
1851 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
1924 |
Person ID |
I78889 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
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Notes |
- known as "Sir A.B.C.D." or "Beau
He was High Sheriff of Leicestershire for 1876
Husband and wife shared a love of adventure and the outdoor life, but a shadow was cast over them by his habit of gambling for high stakes; eventually his ancestral home and estate at Bosworth were sold to pay his debts. After this, in the 1880s, the couple moved to Glen Stewart, one of the houses on Lord Queensberry's Scottish estate of Kinmount, previously the home of Lady Florence's mother, the Dowager Marchioness
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