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Author: Dicken, Alldersey

Biography:

DICKEN, Alldersey (1794-1879: ancestry.co.uk)

He was born on 28 Feb. 1794 and baptised on 4 June  at Witheridge, Devon, the eldest of thirteen children of Perry Dicken, Rector, and his wife Mary Venn, who had married at Tiverton in 1792. He was educated at Tiverton and entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1811 (Scholar 1812) before migrating to St. Peter’s--modern-day Peterhouse--in 1815 (BA 1815, MA 1818, BD 1826, DD 1831, Fellow 1816-32). He was ordained deacon in 1817 and priest in 1818. He won the Seatonian Prize in 1818 with the poem listed here. He was Curate then Vicar at Milton, Cambridgeshire, 1818-23, before returning to Devon to become Head Master at Blundell’s school, Tiverton, 1823-34. He was Rector of Norton Suffolk, 1831-79. He married Caroline Mary Huddleston on 25 Feb. 1838 at St. Marylebone, London, with her brother performing the ceremony. They had seven children. Widowed in 1859, he continued to live at St. Andrew’s, Suffolk, but died at Bournemouth on 2 Jan. 1879, leaving an estate of around £14,000. Besides Deborah (1818), he published two theological works, now forgotten: Three Sermons on the Sabbath (1823) and Remarks on Marginal Notes and References in the Authorised Version of the Holy Scriptures (1847). (ancestry.co.uk 22 Apr. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 22 Apr. 2022; Ipswich Journal 24 Feb. 1838; Bury and Norwich Post 7 Jan. 1879; GM Nov. 1859, 547) AA

 

Books written (1):

Cambridge/ London: Deighton and Sons, and Nicholson and Son/ Hatchard, 1818