He was one of the founders of Hanover Street Baptist Church; the building is now classified as Category I by Heritage New Zealand.

[15] Dick contested the Dunedin West electorate again in the 1887 election, but he was again defeated by Stewart by a similar margin (708 votes to 695).

[20] He was Colonial Secretary from 5 March 1880 and held this role continuously until the defeat of the third Atkinson Ministry on 16 August 1884.

[21] He was appointed Minister of Education on 15 December 1880 in the Hall Ministry and also continuously served in this role until 16 August 1884.

[22] The author of The History of Otago says about Dick that "he distinguished himself more by an assiduous devotion to duty than by any display of brilliance.

As the population grew during the gold mining days, he was one of the founders Hanover Street Baptist Church and became one of the trustees.

His daughter married Henry Purdie in 1872[25] and died on 31 July 1892 in Christchurch[26] and is buried at Linwood Cemetery.

[27] His first wife died in 1849, and he remarried in 1850 at Saint Helena to Elizabeth Clarrissa Darling, and there were two sons and one daughter by this marriage.

1852, Saint Helena – d. 19 June 1921) was a rope maker and signed up at 19 to serve in the machine gun corps.

[33] Agnes Fleming died at her residence in Molesworth Street, Wellington on 16 June 1899 and was also interred at Dunedin Southern Cemetery.

She was the widow of Frederick Walker (d. 1866[40]),[1][41] who was Provincial Treasurer of Otago[42] and whom Dick knew from the voyage on the Bosworth.

[2][43] Eliza Reid Dick was a founding secretary in May 1885 of the Dunedin chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand (WCTU NZ).

[44] She continued supporting the WCTU NZ campaigns, including signing the petition for women to win the right to vote in 1893.

She assisted with the work and fundraising for the Leavitt House and the Sailor's Rest, both religiously inspired social reform efforts in Dunedin.