Born on November 15th, 1870, the third son of the Rev George D W Dickson, MA, Vicar of King's Somborne, Hampshire, and previously Vicar of St James-the-Less, Westminster. He was educated at St Paul's School, studied at St Thomas's Hospital, held the post of House Surgeon there in 1895, and exhibited marked ability and devotion to duty. Entering for the Indian Medical Service, he passed 7th into Netley, and 5th out; he was gazetted on July 29th, 1896, Surgeon Lieutenant, IMS, Bengal, and on arrival went on plague duty to Kalyan, near Bombay, in February, 1897. In the month following he began to develop signs of pulmonary tuberculosis which increased on the journey to join his regiment at Agra, 800 miles distant. A Medical Board at once sent him home, where he arrived on July 10th, in an advanced stage of phthisis; he died at Sandgate, Kent, on January 27th, 1898, at the age of 27.