William Arthur Dickins was Archdeacon of Bombay from 1907 [1] until 1913. [2]
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. [3]
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 priested by the Bishop of Lichfield in 1888. [4]
After a curacy in Penn, 1886-1891, he was appointed as a Chaplain on the Bombay ecclesiastical establishment in 1891, going on to serve at Ahmedabad, Nasirabad, Aden, Kirkee, Malabar Hill and Ahmednagar, prior to his appointment as Archdeacon. [5]
In 1913 he was appointed Vicar of Otterbourne, and then, in 1918, was appointed Vicar of Over Stowey. [6]
Dickins died in a nursing home in Margate on 21 June 1921. [7]
He was married in Rousham on 31 March 1891 to Constance Mary Nelson. [8] The couple had a son and a daughter.
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