Major General Edward Thompson Dickson (16 July 1850 – 23 August 1938) was a British Army general officer, who commanded two Territorial Force divisions before the First World War.

[4] He was later appointed to command the 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment from 1891 to 1895, and promoted to colonel on 30 April 1895.

[7] The following month he was appointed to the staff to command the troops at Barbados, where he arrived in November taking command of the troops in the West Indies,[8] with the local rank of brigadier-general.

[10] In 1906 he returned to England as the Major-General responsible for administration in Eastern Command, a post he held until 1908.

That year, he was appointed the first General Officer Commanding of the newly formed West Lancashire Division in the Territorial Force, and in 1909 took command of the Home Counties Division.