Francis Dickinson | |
Office1: | Member of Parliament for West Somerset |
Term Start1: | 1941 |
Term End1: | 1947 |
Party: | Conservative |
Birth Date: | 6 January 1813 |
Education: | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Father: | William Dickinson |
Children: | 5 |
Relatives: | William Dickinson (grandfather) Samuel Smith (father-in-law) Thomas Agar-Robartes (son-in-law) |
Francis Henry Dickinson (6 January 1813 – 17 July 1890) was an English Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Somerset from 1841 to 1847.
He was the grandson of William Dickinson (1745–1806), the Member of Parliament (MP) for Somerset from 1796 to 1806, and the son of William Dickinson (1771–1837), the MP for Somerset from 1806 to 1831. Francis inherited his father's estates in Somerset and Jamaica.[1] He was educated at Westminster School, and matriculated in 1831 at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1835 and M.A. in 1838. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1835.
Dickinson married in 1835 Caroline Carey (died 1897), his first cousin. She was daughter of Major-General Thomas Carey of the 3rd Foot Guards, and his first wife Caroline Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith MP of Woodhall Park; they had three sons and two daughters.[2] [3] Their children included:[2]