Background
James Dickson was the son of the merchant James Dickson and Christina Murray, the brother of Robert Dickson, and the father of James Jameson Dickson and Oscar Dickson.
James Dickson was the son of the merchant James Dickson and Christina Murray, the brother of Robert Dickson, and the father of James Jameson Dickson and Oscar Dickson.
He was one of the founders of the Trädgårdsföreningen (Garden Society) of Gothenburg.
He served as a kommerseråd (member of the Swedish National Board of Trade). Dickson served as principal of the Gothenburg Savings Bank (1829-1833) and in 1831 he became a member of the Health Committee of Gothenburg, created to deal with the expected arrival of cholera (which indeed came to Gothenburg in 1834, the first cases in Sweden).
He was an ambitious businessman, who in 1816 founded the firm James Dickson & Company, one of the wealthiest of the many Gothenburg trading companies.
