Frederick Dickins
Frederick Victor Dickins
Life
Dickins was born at 44 Connaught Terrace in
Dickins was especially interested in ferns which he collected at Yokohama and Atami, 1863–65. He sent both living plants and drawings back to Joseph Dalton Hooker at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.[4]
He returned to England in 1879. After practising law in Egypt for a time, he mostly devoted himself to Japanese studies and administration in the University of London. He was appointed CB in the 1901 New Year Honours.
Works
- The Collected Works of Frederick Victor Dickins (Bristol: Ganesha, Tokyo: Edition Synapse 1999) reprinted in seven volumes with an introduction by ISBN 978-1-86210-003-9
- Dickins co-authored a Life of Sir Harry Parkes with Stanley Lane-Poole. Lane-Poole wrote the first volume on Parkes in China, Dickins the second volume on Parkes in Japan.
- Dickins translated and edited Chiushingura, or the Loyal League. A Japanese Romance (1875).
Letters to Dickins
- Sir ISBN 978-1-4357-1000-9
Honours
In 1885, French botanist Adrien René Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., séries 2, Vol.8 on page 244 published and described a plant from China. He named the genus,[5] Dickinsia in honour of Frederick Dickins.[6]
References
- ^ a b London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1917
- ^ 1911 England Census
- ^ Sir Ernest Satow's Private Letters to W.G. Aston and F.V. Dickins: The Correspondence of a Pioneer Japanologist from 1870 to 1918 Ernest Mason Satow, Ian C. Ruxton, Lulu.com, 2008
- ^ Peter Barnes, Japan’s botanical sunrise: plant exploration around the Meiji Restoration, Curtis's Botanical Magazine 18(1): 117-131 (2001)
- ^ "Dickinsia Franch. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
- S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
External links
- Works by or about Frederick Victor Dickins at Wikisource
- Biography