Family and Education
1st s. of John Dix of Wickmere by Margaret, da. of John Notts (or Nolte) of Norf. m. (1) Lucy, da. of John Smith of Blackmore, Essex, s.p.; (2) Denice or Dionise (d.1603), da. of John Nele of London, 1s. d.v.p.Vis. Norf. 1563 (Norf. and Norwich Arch. Soc.), ii. 256.
Offices Held
Auditor of lands formerly Wolsey’s and Queen Jane Seymour’s 1544, of ct. of gen. surveyors by 1545, of the prests by Sept. 1548, of government accounts in Ireland 1564 – 65, at various times auditor in the hanaper of Chancery, the hanaper of augmentations, of the butlerage of England, of the great wardrobe, of the admiralty; servant of Thomas, 4th Duke of Norfolk and Philip, Earl of Arundel from c.1565.
Main residences: St. Giles, Cripplegate, London; Wickmere, Norf.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
DIX, William (-d.1596)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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