In jftcmoriaim 



THE REV. C. W. H. DICKER. 



CHARLES WILLIAM HAMILTON DICKER was born in 1855 at 

 Chichester, where his father, the Rev. Hamilton Dicker, who r 

 however, died at an early age, was on terms of close friendship 

 with Bishop Gilbert and Dean Hook. From his father, who 

 was an " all round man," he inherited many of his tastes, 

 and especially his love of architecture, which was developed 

 by his father's intimate association with his cousin, 

 George Bodley. 



While living at Lewisham he came under the influence of 

 Canon Rhodes Bristow, and sang in the choir at S. Stephen's. 

 Being a delicate boy he was educated privately, but in course 

 of time went to King's College, London, where he took 

 his Associate's degree in 1881. In the same year he 

 was ordained by the Bishop of Lichfield, in whose diocese he 

 served for the next four years as Assistant-Curate of Pensnett, 

 in the " Black Country." But after a year at Holy Trinity, 

 Winchester, he sought a wider experience in the Colonial 

 Church, having been selected by his cousin, the late Canon 

 H. B. Bromby, for the Minor Canonry of S. David's Cathedral, 

 Hobart, at the request of the then Dean the present 

 Archdeacon of Dorset. In this capacity he did excellent 

 work for nearly three years, when the Bishop of Tasmania 

 appointed him to the parish of Hamilton. In this extensive 

 parish, fifty miles across, Mr. Dicker laboured devotedly for 

 eight years. He had a number of different Churches to 



