Robert Edmund Dickinson
{{Short description|English banker and politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Robert Edmund Dickinson
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| office1 = Member of Parliament for Wells
| term_start1 = 1899
| term_end1 = 1906
| office2 = Mayor of Bath
| term2 = 1899
| party = Conservative Party
| birth_date = {{birth date|1862|08|01|df=yes}}
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = {{death year and age|1947|1862}}
| death_place =
| education = Trinity College, Cambridge
| relatives = Robert Eden (grandfather)
William Dickinson (grandfather)
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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.{{acad|id= DKN880RE|name=Dickinson, Robert Edmund}}{{acad|id=DKN838EH|name=Dickinson, Edmund Henry}}
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.{{cite book |last1=Kilcrease |first1=Bethany |title=The Great Church Crisis and the End of English Erastianism, 1898–1906 |date=2016 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781317029922 |page=188 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RzMlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA188 |language=en}} He was a resident of The Albany from 1902 to 1910.{{cite web |title=Albany, British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols31-2/pt2/pp367-389 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}} In the January 1910 general election he contested St Pancras West unsuccessfully, losing narrowly to the Liberal Sir William Job Collins.{{cite book |title=Debrett's House of Commons |publisher=London Dean |page=[https://archive.org/details/debrettshouseo1916londuoft/page/261 261] |url=https://archive.org/details/debrettshouseo1916londuoft}}
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.{{cite book |last1=Cassis |first1=Youssef |last2=Cassis |first2=Professor of Economic History Youssef |title=Banquiers de la City À L'époque Édouardienne |date=1994 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521441889 |page=305 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d_71mhP5P4EC&pg=PA305 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Barrington |first1=Emily |title=The Life of Walter Bagehot |date=1914 |publisher=Jazzybee Verlag |isbn=9783849690922 |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AsHRDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 |language=en}} Later he was a director of the Westminster Bank and the Standard Bank of South Africa.{{cite book |last1=Edwards |first1=J. A. |last2=Henley |first2=Henry Patten |title=Lloyd's List Law Reports |date=1929 |publisher=Lloyd's |page=445 |language=en}}
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Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
Category:People educated at Eton College