Thomas Alexander Dickson
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Thomas Alexander Dickson PC (12 October 1833 – 17 June 1909) [1] was an Irish Liberal Party politician. He represented a series of Irish constituencies as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland .
Dickson was elected to Westminster at the general election in 1874 as MP for Dungannon in County Tyrone , and re-elected at the 1880 general election . His re-election was declared void on 10 June 1880 following a petition from the losing candidate, Colonel Knox. His son, James Dickson won the seat at the subsequent by-election with an increased majority. [2]
He was returned to Parliament the following year in a by-election for the County Tyrone constituency , and held that seat until the Tyrone constituency was divided at the 1885 general election . [3]
He returned to Westminster three years later, in May 1888, when he won a by-election for the Dublin St Stephen's Green constituency. He held that seat until the 1892 general election . [4]
He was a Trustee of Magee College , Derry from about 1880. [5] [6]
His daughter, Emily Winifred Dickson was the first woman to be elected Fellow of a college of surgeons in either Ireland or Great Britain and she initially had her practice in his home in Dublin while he was based there.
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"House of Commons constituencies beginning with "D" (part 4)"
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Leigh Rayment's House of Commons page
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link ) - ↑ "James Dickson: The second youngest MP since the Great Reform Act" . OpenLearn . The Open University . Retrieved 13 May 2015 .
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"House of Commons constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)"
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Leigh Rayment's House of Commons page
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"House of Commons constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)"
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Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages
. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009
. Retrieved
24 November
2009
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link ) - ↑ City of London Livery Companies Commission, 'Evidences, 1882: Magee College, Londonderry', in City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report; Volume 1 (London, 1884), pp. 247-252. British History Online - accessed 1 November 2020.
- ↑ Thom's Directory, 1884, page 806
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Dungannon
1874 – 1880 |
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Member of Parliament
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Tyrone
1881 – 1885 With: John Macartney |
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Dublin St Stephen's Green
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