David Dickson (surgeon)

Sir David James Hamilton Dickson

He was present as senior Physician looking after the British naval forces under Sir Alexander Cochrane at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.^[2]

Life

He was born in the manse

He joined the

In 1840, he is listed as one of the two senior Physicians out of a total of ten at the main naval hospital in Plymouth.[7] Upon retiral from the Royal Navy (c.1841) he became a physician in Clifton, Bristol. He is thought to have fully retired around 1845 and returned to Plymouth where many of his naval friends and colleagues remained. In this period he seems to have been much responsible for the improvement of the Naval Library in Plymouth.^[8]

He died at Lower Durnford Street^[9] in Stonehouse, Plymouth, the main English naval port, on 2 January 1850.^[10] His will is held by the National Archives at Kew.^[11]

Family

His third daughter, Ann Rose Honour Dickson,^[12] married Rev. James Jubilee Reynolds, author of Confessions of a Pencil Case, in 1859 and did much "missionary work" to promote the integration of Jews into East End London society. She died in 1887.^[4]

Dickson's son, Rev G D W Dickson MA, married Eliza Bennett Hunt in February 1861.^[13]

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