Rev. Robert Bruce Dickson: Gibbs Family Tree

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Rev. Robert Bruce Dickson was born in 1842 in London.

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Occupation: 1905-1923, Speen, Berkshire; Vicar

Family/Spouse: Grace Agnes Broughton. Grace was born in 1848. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

2. Reginald Herbert Bruce Dickson was born on 24 Apr 1882 in Cadmore End, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; died in Mar 1966 in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Generation: 2

Reginald Herbert Bruce Dickson

(1.Robert¹) was born on 24 Apr 1882 in Cadmore End, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; died in Mar 1966 in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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1st son of Rev. Robert Bruce Dickson (vicar of Speen aforesaid 1905-23), by Grace Agnes, 3rd daughter of Rev. Clement Broughton, sometime rector of Norbury-cum-Snelston, co. Derby. Born at Cadmore End, High wycombe, 24 April and baptised there 28 May 1882. Educated at Bradfield College, Berkshire (exhibitioner), 1896-1900 and at University College, Reading 1905-7 (diploma in Agriculture).

Studied Agriculture at the Universities of Georgia and Illinios, 1909. Member of the Surveyors' Institution of London (Professional Associate, 1911, Colonial Fellow, 1921). Agriculturalist in Department of Agriculture of British south Africa Co.'s administration of Southern Rhodesia 1910-11. Assistant Director of Agriculture in Mozambique Co.'s Territories 1911-13. Farming from 1913 in Southern Rhodesia on his properties Hoboken, nr. Umtali, and Mt. Maienji, Odzi. Moved to farm in the Vumba in the early 1940's. Retired to live at 'Kwazonwe', Hillcrest, Natal in c. 1950.

Reginald married Ethel Constance Gibbs on 3 Jan 1922 in Roehampton, Surrey. Ethel (daughter of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs and Isabel Marianne Bright) was born on 27 Nov 1872 in Clevedon, Somerset; died on 11 Mar 1961 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]