About Henry Newton Dickson
Lived 1866 – 1922 (aged 56). Henry Newton Dickson was a British university teacher and geographer.
Henry Newton Dickson (24 June 1866 – 2 April 1922) was a Scottish geographer, meteorologist and oceanographer from Edinburgh.
He was involved in the later phases of the deciphering of the masses of data from the Challenger expedition whose final findings were not published until 1895. His early education was at the Edinburgh Collegiate School.
Dickson studied at the University of Edinburgh under P. G. Tait and G. Chrystal.
In 1888, aged only 21, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, one of the youngest Fellows ever elected. His proposers were Peter Guthrie Tait, Sir John Murray, Alexander Buchan and George Chrystal.
He died in Edinburgh on 2 April 1922.
Family
Dickson married Margaret Stephenson in 1891.
Selected works Meteorology: the elements of weather and climate, 1893 Climate and weather, 1912 Handbook to Arabia (1916) (as part of Naval Intelligence)
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