Hugh Geoffrey Dickinson (born 17 November 1929) is an English clergyman who was Dean of Salisbury from 1986 until his retirement in 1996.
[1] His father was an officer of the Colonial Service, and his mother, Nancy Lovemore, was a sculptor.
He and his middle brother Peter Dickinson were born in Northern Rhodesia.
[2] He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Oxford, and in May 1944 was granted the rank of a baron's younger son.
[3] Dickinson was ordained in the Church of England in 1957, after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon.