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DICKINSON, HAMILTON, son of Richard Dickinson, Whitehaven, Cumberland, and Elizabeth Grayston (IGI); bapt. St. Bees, Cumberland 15 Nov 1691 (IGI); at school under Knipe (J. E. B. Mayor, ed., Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb., ii, 198); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 4 Jul 1710, aged 18, matr. 1710.

DICKINSON, MARSHE, third son of William Dickinson, London, citizen and grocer, and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Powell, London; bapt. St. Peter le Poer, London 8 Jul 1703 (IGI); adm. (aged 15) 1718; apprenticed to William Beoley 1 Dec 1719; adm. Inner Temple 15 Oct 1728; adm. solicitor 3 Dec 1730; member Common Council, City of London, Vintry Ward 1738-43; Alderman, City of London, Queenhithe Ward, from 13 Feb 1749, Sheriff 1751-2, Lord Mayor 1756-7; Master, Grocers’ Co. 1749-50; MP Brackley from 1754; Chairman of Committee of Ways and Means, House of Commons, from 1761; m. 4 Jun 1736 Mary Cleve; d. 6 Feb 1765.

Dickinson, Peter Allgood Rastall, son of Eric Carr Dickinson, Lond. Stock Exchange, and Marjory Beryl Birch-Crisp; b. 21 Oct. 1925; adm. May 1939 (B); left July 1942; Architectural Assoc. Sch. of Architecture; Grenadier Guards in WW2 (Lieut. ); ARIBA 1949; emigrated to Canada 1950; practised Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa, firm Peter Dickinson Associates; a pioneer in introducing modernist architecture to Canada; m. 3 Mar. 1950 Vera Klausner; d. 15 Oct. 1961.

Dickinson, Virginia Hirwan, sister of David Dunbar Dickinson (qv); b. 22 July 1951; adm. Sept. 1969 (C); left Dec. 1969; Somerville Coll. Oxf., matric. 1970, BA 1974; a restorer of antique china 1974-6, of antique furniture 1976-82; m. 1976 Arthur Lindley, teacher of English; d. Feb. 2024.

Architect. Surveyor to Westminster Abbey.

DICKINSON, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Dickinson MP, Kingweston, Somerset, and Philippa, eldest dau. of Stephen Fuller, Brightling, Sussex; b. 1 Nov 1771; adm. 22 Sep 1781; in school list 1788; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 Jan 1789; BA 1793; MA 1795; BCL 1799; All Souls Coll.; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 May 1791, called to bar 6 Feb 1796; MP Ilchester 1796-1802, Lostwithiel 1802-6, Somerset 1806-31; a Civil Lord of the Admiralty 15 May 1804 - Feb 1806; of Kingweston, Somerset; Lieut. -Col. commanding East Somerset Yeomanry 29 Jun 1819; member, Society of Dilettanti 1808; m. 19 Jul 1803 Sophia, eldest dau. of Samuel Smith MP, Woodhall Park, Herts.; d. at Naples 19 Jan 1837.

DICKINSON, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Dickinson (adm. 1781, qv); b. 12 May 1804; adm. 22 Jan 1816 (Packharness'); left Whitsun 1816; d. 4 Jun 1820.

DICKINSON, WILLIAM, son of William Dickinson, Surveyor to Westminster Abbey, architect, and Elizabeth ---; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1717/8; apprenticed to William Pocklington, citizen, 1 Dec 1719.

DICKINSON, WILLIAM; b. ; adm. ; KS 1679.

Dickson, Alexander Hunt, son of Alexander Dickson, of Bromley, Kent; b. June 3, 1899; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (A); left July 1916; d. (date unknown).