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Committee and Pauper Lunatic Asylum Committee; clerk to the Alnwick Improvement Commission until the formation of a Local Board of Health in that town, when he became chairman of the board, chairman of the Alnwick Board of Guardians, and Gas Company, and a Justice of the Peace for Berwickshire. When the
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Eastern and Northern Division of Coquetdale Ward, and in 1843 he succeeded his father-in-law as Clerk of the Peace for Northumberland. In the course of his long career he filled many public offices. He was clerk
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Exchequer from 1130 to 1272 — the end of the reign of Henry III. — and Mr. Dickson, taking up the record at that point, carried it down to the twelfth year of the first Edward, in the hope that the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries might continue the work. The first part of the
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The Wards, Divisions, Parishes, and
Townships of Northumberland, according'to the Ancient and Modern Divisions, Shewing the Annual Value and Population of each Parish and Township maintaining its own Poor, from the Returns of 1831; also the Places for which Surveyors of Highways and Constables are
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and great-grandfather of
William Dickson. William's father Patrick died in September 1813, and William inherited the Whitecross property. Being intended for the profession of the law, William Dickson was articled on 8 February 1816 to Robert Thorp, an Alnwick solicitor, Clerk of the Peace for the
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Hodgeson's pedigree of the
Dickson family specifies that Robert Thorp of Alnwick was William Dickson's uncle, and that Sarah was his cousin. It is unclear from the sources what exactly the familial connection between the Dicksons and the Thorps was. The spelling of Thorp is given as Thorpe in
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Archaeologia Aeliana volume I., is a further contribution from his pen relative to the Hospital of St. Leonard at Alnwick; and scattered through local newspapers are many historical notes and observations of his, written as occasion served, or circumstances demanded.
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Northumberland, in August, 1850, to open the Royal Border bridge at Berwick, and the train was stopped at Bilton to enable the inhabitants of Alnwick to present a loyal address, Mr. Dickson published an interesting record of the proceedings. His next literary effort was
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This elaborate work superseded the old index of the county published by Graham, of
Alnwick, in 1817, and formed a useful companion to Fryer's Map Index of 1822, in cases where the customary spelling and exact locality of Northumbrian villages, townships, and hamlets were in question.
189:. This little book, with its vignette by Bewick, and a beautiful cut of the Percy Arms from the same engraver, was published anonymously, and its authorship would probably not have been known but for the fact that in the author's own copy of it, which fell into the hands of
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series appears in the fourth volume of the
Archceologia Aeliana, and is accompanied by a translation; the subsequent portions were lithographed without translations, but accompanied by occasional appendices; the whole, with an index, extends to 170 pages quarto.
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on 6 April 1799, the eldest son of Patrick Dickson, of Whitecross and Spittal Hall, a solicitor practicing in Berwick. The Dickson family is traced back to Patrick Dickson of Howlawrig, secretary to
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Dickson's literary and antiquarian tastes found expression as early as 1833, when he published, under the authority of the Northumberland magistrates, a quarto volume of 104 pages, entitled,
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Chronicles of the Monastery of Alnewicke, out of a certain Book of Chronicles in the Library of King's College, Cambridge, of the Gift of King Henry the 6th, the Founder
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The work by which Mr. Dickson is best known to the antiquary and the scholar is his edition of the Pipe Rolls of Edward the First. Mr. Hodgson had printed in his
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Dickson is commemorated by a pant - a water trough - at the foot of Pottergate, in the east of Alnwick, which was rebuilt in 1873 at his expense.
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Dickson was responsible for raising funds for, and thereafter superintending the running of, the Alnwick Corn Exchange, which opened in 1862.
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Bills of Cravings of the Sheriff of Northumberland for 1715, of expenses incurred by him relative to the Rebellion of that year
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appointed respectively, and by whom appointed; Compiled from the Records and other authentic sources. Alnwick: Mark Smith.
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Notice relative to the Hospital of St. Leonard in the Parish of Alnwick
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Mary Anne Dickson, wife of the Rev. George West of Horham Hall, Essex.
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In 1846 he wrote for Davison, the Alnwick publisher, an illustrated
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Notes to Correct Errors as to the Manors of Bamburgh and Blanchland
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Three years later Mr. Dickson contributed to the old series of the
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On a Roman Altar found at Gloster Hill, in the Parish of Warkworth
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Grace Dickson, wife of John Atkinson Wilson of Alnwick, solicitor.
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William and Sarah Dickson had five children who survived infancy:
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Patrick Thorp Dickson (1836-1920), soldier, solicitor
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