Of Monybuie, son of John Dickson, provost of Dumfries; he was Writer to the Signet (1802); in 1816 he married Margaret Goldie of Craigmuie, daughter of Thomas Goldie and Helen Lawson.

REFERENCES TO Walter Dickson:

Sir Walter Scott to Robert Cadell, 4 October 1828 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)