Market Bosworth - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

See also: Category:People from Hinckley and Bosworth (district)

This includes people born, educated, or having lived in Market Bosworth.

  • Robert de Harcourt (Bosworth 1152-1202) - first of the Harcourt family of Stanton Harcourt
  • William Bradshaw (1571–1618) - Puritan
  • Thomas Hooker (1586 Markfield – 1647) - Puritan, founder of Connecticut
  • Sir Wolstan Dixie of Market Bosworth (1597–1630) - founder of the grammar school
  • Sir Wolstan Dixie, 4th Baronet (1700–1767) - most colourful of the 13 Dixie baronets
  • Samuel Johnson - essayist and lexicographer; in 1732 worked at the Dixie Grammar after leaving Oxford because of debt, but left after four months, unable to bear the "boorish" 4th Baronet
  • Richard Dawes (1708–1766) - Latin scholar
  • Thomas Simpson (1710–1760) - mathematician
  • Rev. Arthur Benoni Evans (1781–1854) - scholar, headmaster of the Dixie Grammar
  • Anne Evans (1820-1870) - his daughter, poet and composer
  • Sir John Evans (1823 Burnham – 1908) - his son, treasurer of the Royal Society
  • Sebastian Evans (1830 Market Bosworth - 1909) - poet. Revised his father's book Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs, (1848, 1881).
  • Dr. John Charles Bucknill (1817 Market Bosworth - 1897) - asylum reformer, psychiatrist
  • Lady Florence Dixie (1855–1905) - wife of the 11th baronet; travel writer, war correspondent, and feminist
  • Cliff Price (1900-unknown) - footballer for Southampton F.C. in the 1920s
  • Andy Morrell (b. 1974) - footballer
  • James Holden- DJ

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