About John Dickson
Lived 1915 – 1994 (aged 78–79). John Dickson was a British civil servant.
John Abernethy Dickson, CB (19 September 1915 – 20 March 1994) was a Scottish civil servant and forester.
Born in Udny on 19 September 1915, he attended Robert Gordon's College then the University of Aberdeen, where he won the Sutherland Gold Medal in 1938 and graduated with MA and BSc degrees.
Dickson then entered the Forestry Commission, but was transferred to the Ministry of Supply during the Second World War, where he worked in the Timber Production Department. He returned to the Commission in 1946 and in 1956 became conservator for north Scotland. He died in Edinburgh on 20 March 1994.
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Scottish civil servant and forester (1915-1994)
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John Dickson was born on 19 September 1915.
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John Dickson was a civil servant.
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