Patric Dickinson (officer of arms)

Dickinson was educated at Marling School in Stroud, Gloucestershire, before going to Exeter College, Oxford, where he read modern history and graduated as MA. He was President of the Oxford Union Society and was subsequently called to the Bar at the Middle Temple. Dickinson served as a research assistant at the College of Arms from 1968 until his appointment as Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary in 1978.{{London Gazette |issue=47662 |date=13 October 1978 |page=12188 }} He served as Richmond Herald from 25 January 1989 until 6 April 2010.{{London Gazette |issue=51630 |date=30 January 1989 |page=1187 |nolink=yes }}

On 6 April 2010, he was promoted to the office of Norroy and Ulster King of Arms,{{London Gazette |issue=59386 |date=9 April 2010 |page=6157 |nolink=yes }} holding this office very briefly until he was further advanced to Clarenceux King of Arms on 1 September 2010.{{London Gazette |issue=59536 |date=6 September 2010 |page=17131 |nolink=yes }} He was succeeded in April 2021 by Timothy Duke. In 2004, Dickinson was named Secretary of the Order of the Garter.{{London Gazette |issue=57231 |date=12 March 2004 |page=3208 |nolink=yes }} He was succeeded in April 2024 by Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Segrave.{{London Gazette|issue=64452|page=13158| date=8 July 2024}} He is also, among other things, a Vice-President of the Anthony Powell Society and was elected President of the Society of Genealogists in 2005.

Dickinson was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in the 2006 New Year Honours and Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 2024 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=64269|supp=y|page=N4|date=30 December 2023}}

• 23px 2012: Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

• Fellow 2000: Society of Genealogists (FSG)

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• Heraldry
• Pursuivant
• King of Arms

{{reflist}}

• [http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/ The College of Arms]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160315203917/http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/85531/Patric-Laurence-DICKINSON Debrett's People of Today]
• [http://sog.org.uk/membership/about.shtml Society of Genealogists]
• [http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/cuhags/info/o_of_a/intro.htm CUHAGS Officer of Arms Index]

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