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<p>Amplification of entry and supply of new and improved references</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}<br /> {{Portal|Christianity}}&#039;&#039;&#039;William Arthur Dickins&#039;&#039;&#039; was [[Archdeacon of Bombay]] from 1907&lt;ref&gt;&#039;&#039;Ecclesiastical Intelligence.&#039;&#039; [[The Times]] (London, England), Thursday, Aug 08, 1907; pg. 10; Issue 38406&lt;/ref&gt; until 1913.&lt;ref&gt;&#039;&#039;Ecclesiastical Intelligence.&#039;&#039; [[The Times]] (London, England), Friday, Aug 01, 1913; pg. 6; Issue 40279&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> He was born in St Nicholas Vicarage, Emscote, [[Warwick]] on 18 April 1861, the son of the Rev. Thomas Bourne Dickins and his wife Sarah Catherine Trow.&lt;ref&gt;J. Foster, &#039;&#039;Oxford Men, 1880-1892&#039;&#039; (1893), p. 168; All Saints, Warwick, &quot;Register of Baptisms,&quot; at Warwickshire County Record Office, &#039;&#039;Warwickshire Anglican Registers&#039;&#039; (Roll: Engl/2/1112; Document Reference: DR 224).&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Dickins was educated at [[Lincoln College, Oxford]]; [[Durham University]]; and [[Lichfield Theological College]]. He was made [[Deacon]] in the [[Church of England]] in 1886, and [[ordained|priested]] by the [[William Maclagan|Bishop of Lichfield]] in 1888.&lt;ref&gt;&#039;&#039;Durham University Calendar, 1882&#039;&#039;, p. 135; &#039;&#039;Clergy List, 1897&#039;&#039;, p 260; [[Crockford&#039;s Clerical Directory]] [[London]], Horace Cox, 1908 p398.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> After a [[Curate|curacy]] in [[Penn, West Midlands|Penn]], 1886-1891, he was appointed as a [[Chaplain]] on the [[Bombay Presidency|Bombay]] ecclesiastical establishment in 1891, going on to serve at [[Ahmedabad]], [[Nasirabad, Ajmer|Nasirabad]], [[Aden]], [[Kirkee]], [[Malabar Hill]] and [[Ahmednagar]], prior to his appointment as [[Archdeacon]].&lt;ref&gt;‘DICKINS, Ven. William Arthur’, Who Was Who, A &amp; C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U205664, accessed 28 Feb 2015]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> In 1913 he was appointed [[Vicar]] of [[Otterbourne]], and then, in 1918, was appointed Vicar of [[Over Stowey]].&lt;ref&gt;&quot;Obituary&quot; in &#039;&#039;Leamington Spa Courier&#039;&#039; (24 June 1921), p. 6.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Dickins died in a nursing home in [[Margate]] on 21 June 1921.&lt;ref&gt;&#039;&#039;Leamington Spa Courier&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;loc. cit&#039;&#039;.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> He was married in [[Rousham]] on 31 March 1891 to Constance Mary Nelson.&lt;ref&gt;Oxfordshire Family History Society, &#039;&#039;Oxfordshire, England; Anglican Parish Registers&#039;&#039; (Reference Number: PAR226/1/R3/3).&lt;/ref&gt; The couple had a son and a daughter.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> {{Archdeacons of Bombay}}<br /> {{Mumbai topics}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Dickins, William Arthur}}<br /> [[Category:1921 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford]]<br /> [[Category:Archdeacons of Bombay]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{UK-reli-bio-stub}}<br /> {{Anglican-stub}}</div>

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