Education
Dickinson was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Oxford, in May 1944 he was granted the rank of a baron"s younger son, being the younger grandson of Willoughby Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson.
Dickinson was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Oxford, in May 1944 he was granted the rank of a baron"s younger son, being the younger grandson of Willoughby Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson.
Dickinson married Jean Storey in June 1963 and together they have two grown-up children: Teresa (b July 1964) and Benjamin (b June 1966). He was ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1957. He was a curate at Street Michael"s Melksham, then a chaplain at Trinity College, Cambridge and then Winchester College.
In 1969 he became the Bishop’s Adviser for Adult Education in the Diocese of Coventry and was subsequently Vicar of Street Michael’s Street Albans from 1977 until 1986 and his appointment as dean