Thomas Dickenson

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Thomas Dickenson (Dickinson), a merchant of York, was an adherent of the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War. He was also a sheriff, alderman, and twice Lord Mayor of York and a Member of Parliament for York during the Protectorate.

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Dickenson was Sheriff of York in 1640, twice Lord Mayor of York, in 1647 and again in 1657 the year he was knighted by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. [1] [2] He was a Member of Parliament for York in the First, Second and Third Protectorate parliaments. [3]

Although a strong partisan of Cromwell, Dickenson was probably moderate in his religious views; and, according to the testimony of a contemporary, more Episcopalian than Presbyterian or Independent. Dickenson was a patron of literary men. John Bulmer, M.D., dedicated to him his Anthropometamorphosis; or, Man Transformed, 4to, 1653; and the Rev. Josiah Hunter dedicated to him a Sermon on Philip iv. 5, 4to, 1656. [3]

Notes

  1. York Minster 1859, p. 131 (footnotes).
  2. Drake 1736, p. 366.
  3. 1 2 F.R.R. 1867, p. 193.

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