English banker and politician
Robert Edmund Dickinson (1 August 1862 – 1947) was an English banker and Conservative Party politician.
Life
The son of Edmund Henry Dickinson (1821–1896), son of William Dickinson (1771–1837) , and his wife Emily Dulcibella Eden, daughter of Robert Eden, 3rd Baron Auckland , Bishop of Bath and Wells, he was from a Somerset background, but was born near London on 1 August 1862. He was educated at Eton College , and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1880, graduating B.A. in 1884.[ 1] [ 2]
Dickinson went to work in Stuckey's Bank . He was a Justice of the Peace for Somerset, and an officer in the Somerset Imperial Yeomanry . He was elected Member of Parliament for Wells in 1899, as a Conservative, holding his seat until 1906; and also in 1899 was Mayor of Bath .[ 1] [ 3] The Albany from 1902 to 1910.[ 4] January 1910 general election he contested St Pancras West unsuccessfully, losing narrowly to the Liberal Sir William Job Collins .[ 5]
In 1913 Dickinson was working for Parr's Bank , which took over Stuckey's Bank; technically this was an amalgamation, and when it was carried out on 1909, Dickinson was a director of Stuckey's.[ 6] [ 7] Westminster Bank and the Standard Bank of South Africa .[ 8]
Dickinson died in 1947.[ 1]
Notes
^ a b c "Dickinson, Robert Edmund (DKN880RE)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.^ "Dickinson, Edmund Henry (DKN838EH)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.^ Kilcrease, Bethany (2016). The Great Church Crisis and the End of English Erastianism, 1898-1906 ISBN 9781317029922 ^ "Albany, British History Online" . www.british-history.ac.uk .^ Debrett's House of Commons 261 .^ Cassis, Youssef; Cassis, Professor of Economic History Youssef (1994). Banquiers de la City À L'époque Édouardienne ISBN 9780521441889 ^ Barrington, Emily (1914). The Life of Walter Bagehot ISBN 9783849690922 ^ Edwards, J. A.; Henley, Henry Patten (1929). Lloyd's List Law Reports . Lloyd's. p. 445.