[2] He was born in St Nicholas Vicarage, Emscote, Warwick on 18 April 1861, the son of the Rev.
Thomas Bourne Dickins and his wife Sarah Catherine Trow.
He was made Deacon in the Church of England in 1886, and priested by the Bishop of Lichfield in 1888.
[4] After a curacy in Penn, 1886-1891, he was appointed as a Chaplain on the Bombay ecclesiastical establishment in 1891, going on to serve at Ahmedabad, Nasirabad, Aden, Kirkee, Malabar Hill and Ahmednagar, prior to his appointment as Archdeacon.
[6] Dickins died in a nursing home in Margate on 21 June 1921.