John Dickson (1830/1–72)

Physician. MD, and LRCS, Edinburgh, 1853. Co-founder of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 1862; secretary 1862–7. Medical superintendent, Government Lunatic Asylum, Port Louis, Mauritius, from 1868.

Sources

Census returns of Scotland 1861 (The National Archives of Scotland: Dumfries 821/1/8)

Gladstone 1913

Medical directory

James Williams, personal communication.