William Dickins

William Arthur Dickins was Archdeacon of Bombay from 1907[1] until 1913.[2]

He was born in St Nicholas Vicarage, Emscote, Warwick on 18 April 1861, the son of the Rev. Thomas Bourne Dickins and his wife Sarah Catherine Trow.[3]

Dickins was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford; Durham University; and Lichfield Theological College. He was made Deacon in the Church of England in 1886, and priested by the Bishop of Lichfield in 1888.[4]

After a curacy in Penn, 1886-1891, he was appointed as a Chaplain on the Bombay ecclesiastical establishment in 1891, going on to serve at Ahmedabad, Nasirabad, Aden, Kirkee, Malabar Hill and Ahmednagar, prior to his appointment as Archdeacon.[5]

In 1913 he was appointed Vicar of Otterbourne, and then, in 1918, was appointed Vicar of Over Stowey.[6]

Dickins died in a nursing home in Margate on 21 June 1921.[7]

He was married in Rousham on 31 March 1891 to Constance Mary Nelson.[8] The couple had a son and a daughter.

References
  1. Ecclesiastical Intelligence. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Aug 08, 1907; pg. 10; Issue 38406
  2. Ecclesiastical Intelligence. The Times (London, England), Friday, Aug 01, 1913; pg. 6; Issue 40279
  3. J. Foster, Oxford Men, 1880-1892 (1893), p. 168; All Saints, Warwick, "Register of Baptisms," at Warwickshire County Record Office, Warwickshire Anglican Registers (Roll: Engl/2/1112; Document Reference: DR 224).
  4. Durham University Calendar, 1882, p. 135; Clergy List, 1897, p 260; Crockford's Clerical Directory London, Horace Cox, 1908 p398.
  5. ‘DICKINS, Ven. William Arthur’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 28 Feb 2015
  6. "Obituary" in Leamington Spa Courier (24 June 1921), p. 6.
  7. Leamington Spa Courier, loc. cit.
  8. Oxfordshire Family History Society, Oxfordshire, England; Anglican Parish Registers (Reference Number: PAR226/1/R3/3).


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