John Dickson
1830/1–72
Physician. MD, and LRCS, Edinburgh, 1853. Co-founder of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 1862; secretary 1862–7. Medical superintendent, Government Lunatic Asylum, Port Louis, Mauritius, from 1868.
Sources
Census returns of Scotland 1861 (The National Archives of Scotland: Dumfries 821/1/8)
Gladstone 1913
Medical directory
James Williams, personal communication.
Bibliography
Gladstone, Hugh S. 1913. The history of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Dumfries: Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society.
Medical directory: The London medical directory … every physician, surgeon, and general practitioner resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical directory. London: John Churchill. 1848–60. The London & provincial medical directory, inclusive of the medical directory for Scotland, and the medical directory for Ireland, and general medical register. London: John Churchill. 1861–9. The medical directory … including the London and provincial medical directory, the medical directory for Scotland, the medical directory for Ireland. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1870–1905.
