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DICKINS, WATSON WILLIAM, only surviving son of Francis Dickins (qv); b. 29 Feb 1790; in school list 1803; Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 26 May 1808; BA 1812; MA 1819; ordained deacon 1815, priest 1816; Rector of Hawkinge, Kent, 20 Dec 1815-8; Perpetual Curate, Folkestone, Kent, 1815-8; Rector of Adisham-cum-Staple, Kent, from 1818; Prebendary of Lichfield from 22 Apr 1822; JP Kent; m. 20 Jun 1818 Mary, second dau. of Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart., MP; d. 27 Aug 1862.

Dickinson, Anthony Kenrick Rastall, brother of Peter Allgood Rastall Dickinson (qv); b. 24 June 1927; adm. Sept. 1940 (B); left July 1942; P&O Co. in WW2; Andrew Yule & Co., Calcutta, India, 1949; a stockbroker; d. April 1981.

DICKINSON, EDWARD; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jul 1723; in under school list 1725.

DICKINSON, FRANCIS HENRY, second son of William Dickinson (adm. 1781, qv); b. 6 Jan 1813; adm. 18 Jun 1824 (Stikeman's); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 14 May 1831, scholar 1834, matr. Mich. 1831; BA 1835; MA 1838; adm. Inner Temple 25 Apr 1835; of Kingweston, Somerset; MP (Conservative) West Somerset 1841-7; DL JP Somerset, High Sheriff 1853; an active Anglican High Churchman; FSA 16 Dec 1852; m. 8 Sep 1835 Caroline, dau. of Maj. -Gen. Thomas Carey; d. 17 Jul 1890.

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.

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.