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.

  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).