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- Alldersey Dicken, of Sidney Sussex College, B.A. 1815, fellow of Peterhouse, M.A. 1818, D.D. 1831, became vicar in July 1821. Dr Dicken [now] holds the college living of Norton in Suffolk, to which he was presented in 1831. He gained the Seatonian prize poem in 1818: in 1823 he published his Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge, and in 1847, some Remarks on the Marginal Notes and References of the Bible. Littleton Charles Powys, fellow of Corpus Christi College, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816, B.D. 1824, now rector of Stalbridge, Dorsetshire, was curate from 1823.
On Dr Dicken's resignation in 1837 Charles John Champnes, of St Alban's hall, Oxford, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1841, D.C.L. 1847, succeeded to the vicarage.
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Alldersey Dicken, 9, son of Perry Dicken, clerk, Witheridge, Attended Blundell's School Aug. 23, 1803 — Dec. 15, 1806; elected afterwards to Sidney,
THE Rev. A. DiCKEN, D.D., was born 28th February, 1794, the eldest of a family of thirteen children. The Dickens were a family of Shropshire landowners for 200 years before Mr. Perry Dicken, Dr. Dicken's grandfather, settled at Tiverton about the middle of the 17th century, and here Perry Dicken married Mary Penleaze in 1767.
Dr. Dicken's father, the Rev. Perry Dicken (also of Blundeirs and after of Balliol), was for 40 years Vicar of Witheridge, near Tiverton, and married Mary, the daughter of Henry Venn, of Payhembury, in 1792.
Dr. Dicken's family, when it removed to Devon, became strongly Blundellian. I find his father, two uncles, a cousin, three brothers and two nephews, besides himself '97 ten Dickens'97 entered in the Register.
Dr. Dicken was at Blundeirs 1803-1806 and again 1808-1811 (vide Nos. 892 and 1075 in Register). He won the Composition Medal in 1810 and the Sidney Sussex Exhibition in 181 1, graduated twelfth wrangler in 1815, became Fellow and Tutor of St Peter's College, Cambridge, B.D. 1826, D.D. 1831. He won the Seatonian Prize in 1818 with the poem '* Deborah," and was a member of the Council of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. In 1822 he published three sermons preached before the University, and in 1847 marginal notes and references on the authorized version of Holy Scripture.
In 1831 Dr. Dicken was presented to the Rectory of Norton, near Woolpit in Suffolk, by St. Peter's College, and he retired to Norton on resigning Blundell's. There 45 years later be was still discharging his clerical duties without a curate.
On Fet>ruary 15th, 1838, he married Caroline Mary Huddleston, the sister of one of his neighbours at Norton, who died 17th October, 1869.
He was elected Head Master of Blundell's on 30th June, 1823. On his resignation in 1834 he received a massive silver tray from his pupils with this inscription : '97 " Alldersey Dicken, S.T.P., hoc ubi plurima debentur vix munusculum quodque indicit quam declaret summa ejus in se merita a£Ferendum Consenserunt disoipnli A.D. MDCCCXXXIV."* The testimonial was presented by one of his old pupils, Edward Arthur Dayman, afterwards Vice-Chairman of the Governing Body and Fellow and Tutor of Exeter Coll., Oxon.
He died 2nd January, 1879, and was buried at St Peter's, Bournemouth, Hants. His mother, some sisters, and others of the Dicken family lie buried at Tiverton.
Dr. Dicken had seven children, four of whom survived him, including two sons, Frederick Rowland and Charles Gauntlett, both Captains in the Royal Navy, still living. His eldest son, George Alldersey, died shortly after leaving Cambridge, where he graduated at St Peter's College.
Dr. Dicken first instituted mathematical teaching at BlundelPs, and on his resignation a local newspaper thus referred to him (July 6th, 1833) :
**It is acknowledged on all hands that an instructor more amiable or kind-hearted, united with such extensive and varied learning and indefatigable research, has never presided over this noble establishment."
Dr. Dicken makes 337 entries in the Register in 11 years, averaging 30 7/1 1 per annum, and leaves 133 boys at the school.
***To Alldersey Dicken, S.T.P. This little gift where many gifts are
justly due, intended to suggest rather than to express the great services which
he has rendered to them, his pupib joined in presenting A.D. 1834."
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1794 - 1879 (84 years)
d. 6 Jan 1832, Witheridge