The Dixie Professorship of Ecclesiastical History is one of the senior
professorships
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in
history
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at the
University of Cambridge
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.
Lord Mayor of London
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in the 16th century, Sir
Wolstan Dixie
Sir Wolstan Dixie (1524/1525 – 1594) was an English merchant and administrator, and Lord Mayor of London in 1585.
Life
He was the son of Thomas Dixie and Anne Jephson, who lived at Catworth in Huntingdonshire. Wolstan was the fourth son ...
, left funds to found both scholarships and fellowships at
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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. In 1878 the fellowships were abolished and replaced by the professorship that still bears his name.
Dixie Professors
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Mandell Creighton
Mandell Creighton (; 5 July 1843 – 14 January 1901) was a British historian, Anglican priest and bishop. The son of a successful carpenter in north-west England, Creighton studied at the University of Oxford, focusing his scholarship on ...