William Dickson, bishop of Down and Connor

(1744 c.-1804)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dickson, William, 1744 or 5-1804 DNB: Dickson, William (1744/5-1804), Church of Ireland bishop of Down and Connor LBT ID: WiDicks1804 VIAF ID: 83542203 LOC ID: no2009030693	B/BAP: 1744 DIED: 1804-09-19
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Educated at Eton and Hertford College, Oxford, he was a friend of Charles James Fox, who had him appointed as bishop of Down and Connor (1784).
REFERENCES TO William Dickson, bishop of Down and Connor: Sydney Owenson to Robert Owenson, [1798] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sydney Owenson to Robert Owenson, [1799?] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 23 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XIV