He was present as senior Physician looking after the British naval forces under Sir Alexander Cochrane at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
[2] He was born in the manse Bedrule in the Scottish Borders in 1780,[3] being the son of the local minister, Rev George Dickson.
In 1806 he was formally accepted as a full doctor (MD) and became Physician and Inspector of Ships and Hospitals on the Leeward Islands in the West Indies, where he was at that time serving.
[8] He died at Lower Durnford Street[9] in Stonehouse, Plymouth, the main English naval port, on 2 January 1850.
James Jubilee Reynolds, author of Confessions of a Pencil Case, in 1859 and did much "missionary work" to promote the integration of Jews into East End London society.