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Family history Müller - Humphreys
The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers. It is located in the wider Temple area of London, near the Royal Courts of Justice, and within the City of London." (From: Wikipedia) So the above statement (from Burke, "Genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry", Vol.1, 1879) about William Dickson as being of Garden Court, Middle Temple, seems to suggest that he had studied law and become a barrister.
This, though, would be a premature conclusion, as John Humphreys points out. He refers to the contributions Harriett Dickson, the wife of William Dickson's grandson Arthur and a meticulous chronicler of family history makes to William's biography and concludes: "She never says that William Dickson was a barrister, and I'm sure she would have mentioned it if he had been. I have now received a reply from the Archivist at the Society of the Middle Temple who says: '
...a number of non-members of the Inn could and did live in the Middle Temple and would correctly have been described in the way William Dickson is. There is an outside chance there could be references to him in the records, but it is very uncertain in the case of non- members.'
So I now think he simply lived in Middle Temple."
Middle Temple Gate, Temple Bar
William Dickson (II)
born on 22nd March 1762 at Dale House,
Warton, Lancashire, England
died on 21st November 1804 in Gibraltar
William Dickson (II) was a son of
William Dickson
(I) and
Mary Watson
.
He married
Sarah Willatt
in Manchester. They had one child,
George Frederick Dickson
.
Above: William's entry in the Dickson family book, by
Harriett
Dickson née Barker
, his grandson Arthur's wife.
On the 21st of November, 1804, at the age of 42, William Dickson died far from home in Gibraltar, of a contagious disease which was assumed to be the plague. His death is reported in the newspaper article shown here (see left) and by his grandson's wife Harriett Dickson. Partly after her chronicle, John Humphreys writes: "We find that he went to Portsmouth in May, awaited a fair wind for a while, and sailed in June; it took 4 weeks to get to Gibraltar, which now seems astonishing, but he sailed as part of a convoy. He went on shore and (presumably) conducted business there at the hottest time of the year, July and August; he does not seem to have liked the place, or the people he found there. We first hear of sickness (in Malaga) in his letter of 26th August; when he writes on 4th October he has returned on board ship, a precaution that kept him safe. The newspaper report said he had just arrived, which was clearly not correct."
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John Humphreys outlines our knowledge about William Dickson's early years:
After having been recorded at birth (1762), he reappears at his marriage (Manchester Cathedral, 1786, a "yarn merchant" aged 24). Where he had been in between, and where he went afterwards is unknown. Adverts in Manchester papers tell us that William Dickson "has removed" (24 Mar 1789) from
Crow- Alley
to a warehouse in
Cromford-Court
, where he offered for sale Cottons from "Brazils, St Domingo, Tobago, Grenada and Smyrna".
In April 1792 William Dickson offers a range of cottons to be sold at auction at the Bull's Head, Manchester (on Tuesday 24th April at three in the afternoon). This is followed in May by a sale of some cottons by private treaty, by Mr William Dickson of Cromford Court. William Dickson of Cromford Court, a cotton merchant, is listed in a Manchester directory of 1794, but not in the next one, 1797. We can't be sure, though, that all of these sources mean the same William or different ones.
Similarly it's not quite clear when he moved to London, though his son's schooling in Hackney 1801-1804 might set a time frame.
William Dickson's Baptism record:
The Parish of Warton in the County of Lancashire:
Baptisms at the Church of St Oswald
