Henry Newton Dickson
Prof Henry Newton Dickson
He was strongly involved in the later phases of the deciphering of the masses of data from the Challenger expedition whose final findings were not published until 1895.[2]
Biography
He was born in
FRSE (1817-1889), a paper manufacturer with James Dickson & Co. He was raised at the family home at 38 York Place in the New Town, an elegant Georgian townhouse.[3] His early education was at the Edinburgh Collegiate School.[4]
Dickson studied at the
P. G. Tait and G. Chrystal.[2] He received an M.A. and a D.Sc. from the University of Oxford, where he had learnt much from the eminent geographer, Halford Mackinder.[5]
In 1888, aged only 21, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, one of the youngest Fellows ever elected. His proposers were Peter Guthrie Tait, Sir John Murray, Alexander Buchan and George Chrystal.[4]
From 1906 to 1920 he was a professor of geography at
British Association in 1913.[6]
He died in Edinburgh on 2 April 1922.
Family
Dickson married Margaret Stephenson in 1891.
Selected works
- Meteorology: the elements of weather and climate, 1893
- Climate and weather, 1912
- Handbook to Arabia (1916) (as part of Naval Intelligence)
References
- ^ Year-book and record. Royal Geographical Society. 1907. pp. 116.
- ^ S2CID 4122533.
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory, 1866-7
- ^ ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
- ^ The Greater War: Other Combatants and Other Fronts 1914-1918, by Jonathan Krause
- ^ "Dickson, Henry Newton". Who's Who: 678. 1919.
External links
Works by or about Henry Newton Dickson at Wikisource
