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The son of the papermaker John Dickinson of Nash Mills, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, he was born on 28 December 1815, and educated at Eton College. He declined to take part in his father"s business.
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John Dickinson
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Eton College.
Career
Dickinson travelled in Europe, and began to write on behalf of liberal causes. A public works commission was appointed by Lord Dalhousie in 1852 to inquire into the deficiencies of administration pointed out by Dickinson and his friends. On 12 March 1853 a meeting was held in Dickinson"s rooms, and a society was formed under the name of the John Bright came onto the committee, and his contacts gave the Society access to many more MPs.
His interests included Indian cotton as an alternative source to the United States, and lobbying the British government to have Indian infrastructure improved.
The debate in parliament of 1853 on the renewal of the East India Company"s charter gave the society a short-term objective, and the maintenance of good faith towards the Indian states a major theme. The Indian Rebellion of 1857 made for another push, in efforts towards moderation, and to prevent exclusive attention to penal and repressive measures, and Dickinson organised a series of public meetings
After 1859 the began to languish: at a meeting in 1861 Bright resigned the chairmanship, and carried by a motion appointing Dickinson his successor. The publication in 1864-1865 of two pamphlets entitled Dhar not restored roused in Calcutta feeling against Dickinson, who was called a "needy adventurer".
By 1865 the Society had ceased to function.
On the death of his father in 1869, Dickinson inherited a fortune, but was in weak health. He corresponded with Tukojirao Holkar II, maharajah of Indore. On 23 November 1876 he was found dead in his study, at 1 Upper Grosvenor Street, London.
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Initially involved, besides Dickinson, were two Members of Parliament, John Blackett and Henry Danby Seymour. Another activist was Francis Carnac Brown who had been a committee member of the earlier British India Society, formed in 1839 by Joseph Pease (1772–1846).
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