The son of John Giles Dimock, rector of Uppingham, Rutland, he was born at Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, on 22 November 1810.
He was educated at Uppingham School under Dr Buckland, was admitted pensioner of St John's College, Cambridge, on 21 February 1829, and was elected Bell's scholar in 1830.
In 1869 he was made prebendary of Lincoln, and he held the prebend with his rectory until his death at Barnburgh on 21 April 1876.
[1] Dimock was interested in ecclesiastical and mediaeval history: his earliest work was Illustrations of the Collegiate Church of Southwell, London, 1854.
v-vii., which appeared between 1867 and 1877, by Dimock; the edition was completed with an eighth volume by George Frederic Warner.