William Dickson TD MBE FRSE FRSC (23 January 1905 – 21 October 1992) was a Scottish chemist and educator.
A keen fisherman he held the claim to fame for catching one of Scotland’s largest ever halibut 77 pounds (35 kg).
He then undertook teacher training at the newly created Moray House School of Education in Edinburgh.
His proposers were Mowbray Ritchie, James Kendall, Neil Campbell, and Sir Edmund Hirst.
[2] In teaching, he was credited from rescuing both Huntly Lorimer (now a Fellow of the Royal Society) and Lord Robert Hunter from academic obscurity and steering them towards an interest in science.