DICK, HARRIS ST. JOHN, only son of William Fleming Dick (qv); b. 24 Sep 1834; adm. (G) 29 Mar 1847; left 18 Dec 1849; Cornet, 2nd Dragoon Guards 18 Oct 1851; Lieut., 24 Feb 1854; Capt., 5 Mar 1858; retd. 19 Nov 1858; m. 22 Jun 1865 Sarah Grace, widow of Rev. Charles Vernon DD, Wherstead Park, Suffolk, and dau. of John Fawcett, Petteril Bank, Cumberland; d. 27 Dec 1879.
Dick, John Oliver Lawson, son of John Lawson Dick MD FRCS and Nora Winifred Duke of Highgate; b. 21 May 1920; adm. Sept. 1932 (G); left July 1938; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1938, BA 1943, MA 1945; RAFVR (A & SD) 1944-5 (Flt Lieut.); successively in the PR dept of Esso Petroleum Co., on staff of Voice & Vision Ltd, and man. dir. PR Associates Ltd; ed. Aubrey's Brief Lives 1949; d. 1 May 1964.
DICKENSON, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1745/6 (Grant's); left 1749.
Dickey, Daniel O’Rourke, son of Edward Montgomery O’Rourke Dickey CBE, Staff Inspector for Art, Min. of Education, and Eunice Emmeline, d. of George Howard; b. 12 Nov. 1923; adm. Sept. 1937 (G); left Apr. 1942; RAFVR 1943-5 (Flt. Lieut. ), wounded and p. o. w. in Germany; Exeter Coll. Oxf., matric. 1946, rowed in Trial Eights 1948, BA 1949, MA 1953; asst. master Bedford Mod. Sch. 1949-79, retd. 1979; m. 22 Dec. 1949 Mary, d. of Edward Coller of Wimbledon; d. 23 Aug. 1991.
DICKSON, GEORGE COCHRANE, son of Maj. Richard Lothian Dickson, 1st Life Guards, and Julia Diana, youngest dau. of Major-Gen. Thomas Cox, First Major, 1st Foot Guards; b. 1 Oct 1808; adm. (G) 28 Feb 1823; left 1825; Ensign, 85th Foot 5 Apr 1831; Lieut., 24 Nov 1835; Capt., 1 Nov 1839; 84th Foot, 8 Apr 1842; d. at Moulmein, Burma 17 Nov 1842.
Dickson, John Douglas Hamilton, son of James Douglas Hamilton Dickson, Fellow and Tutor of Peterhouse, by Isabel Catharine, daughter of William Banks, of Edinburgh, etcher and engraver; b. Oct. 18, 1885; adm. Jan. 18, 1900 (G); left July 1904; Writer to the Signet March 28, 1910; in practice at Edinburgh; president of the Edinburgh Bach Society 1914; served in Great War I; Lieut. July 14, 1917, attached Royal Scots Fusiliers, on the Recruiting Staff July - Nov. 1917, and transferred to the Ministry of National Service Nov. 1917 - Dec. 1918; demob. Dec. 31, 1918; at various times president and conductor of the Edinburgh Bach Society, chairman of the Reid Symphony Orchestra and of the Scottish Music Advisory Committee of the B. B. C. and a member of the Programme Committee of the Edinburgh Festival Society; Hon. Mus. Doc. Edinburgh Univ. 1946; O.B.E. 1956; m. June 15, 1918, Marjorie Balfour, daughter of William Duncan Lowe, of Edinburgh, Writer to the Signet; d. Dec. 5, 1958.
Dickson, Sigurd Ayton, youngest son of Sir John Frederick Dickson (q.v.); b. July 16, 1883; adm. May 6, 1897 (G); left July 1902; a District Commissioner in West Africa, and subsequently in South Africa; became a rubber-planter in the Federated Malay States; returned home on account of Great War I; 2nd Lieut. R. F. A. (Spec. Res.) Nov. 20, 1915; went out to the western front and was attached to 2nd Brigade; killed in action near Ypres Feb. 1, 1917; unm.
DIGNAM, JOHN JAMES; b. 4 Apr 1827; adm. (G) 9 Apr 1839. [Perhaps he and William Dignam (qv) were sons of James Dignam, Gerrard Street, Soho, solicitor : mother Anne Scott ? (IGI)].
DIGNAM, WILLIAM; b. 12 Apr 1829; adm. (G) 9 Apr 1839.
Dillon, Harold George Sydney, son of Emil Joseph Dillon, journalist and author, by his first wife; b. Sept. 24, 1889; adm. April 30 1903 (G); left July 1907; Christ's Coll. Camb., scholar, matric. Michaelmas 1907; B.A. 1910; took part in a gold-prospecting expedition in the Lena River District, Siberia, 1912-3; served in R.A.F. in 1917, and in R. N. V. R. as Lieut. in 1918; Vice-Consul at Libau, Courland, 1919-21; employed in the Enemy Debts Clearing House in London 1921-2; m.; d. 1922.