Sir Percy Dixwell-Oxenden, 10th Baronet

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 Yeomanry. He was the last member of his family to own the Broome Park estate, which he sold to Earl Kitchener in 1911.

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

Career

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.

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. His brother had succeeded their uncle, Sir Henry Oxenden, 8th Baronet, who died without issue. He was a Captain of the Royal East Kent Yeoman Cavalry. 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. Thereafter they lived at Craigmore in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. and Louisa Greville (a daughter of Hon. Robert Fulke Greville and Louisa, 2nd Countess of Mansfield). Her brother, the Rev. William Robert Finch-Hatton, married Percy's sister, Agnes Graham Oxenden. Together, they were the parents of: Basil Heneage Dixwell-Oxenden (1874–1919), who served in the Second Boer War from 1900 to 1902; he died unmarried. After a service at St Mary's Church, he was buried at St Mary the Virgin Churchyard in Wingham, Kent. As he was predeceased by his only son, the baronetcy, created in May 1678 for Henry Oxenden, became extinct upon his death.