THE REV. C. W. H. DICKER. XXXi. 



limits of his own parish, his spirit had passed into the higher 

 life. Apparently his motor-bicycle side-slipped while he was 

 trying to pass a steam-lorry, under the wheel of which he 

 fell and was instantly killed. 



Mr. Dicker was especially noticeable for his great versatility 

 and for his unusually varied gifts and attainments. He was 

 an able musician, choir conductor and bandmaster ; an 

 excellent designer, and master of pen and pencil ; a good 

 craftsman he carved the oak Altar Rail in Charminster 

 Church, and the Oak Reredos in his own Church, and 

 sent various exhibits to the Dorset Arts and Crafts 

 Exhibitions ; and a composer (he even wrote a successful 

 song in the Dorset Dialect). Among other acquirements he 

 possessed a good knowledge of Architecture, of Botany (he 

 often took the Hobart Cathedral choristers botanising on 

 Mount Wellington), and of Archaeology, and was a valued 

 contributor to the Dorset Photographic Survey. He also 

 made an intelligent study of the antiquities of the county, 

 and took a keen interest in the Dorset Natural History and 

 Antiquarian Field Club, of which he was a Vice-President, 

 and of whose " Proceedings " he has been for some time 

 Editor ; while several volumes contain various articles of 

 his own, and the illustrations of the Dorset Bells (among many 

 others) were mainly taken from his drawings. 



The w T riter of the obituary notice in the Dorset County 

 Chronicle well says that in Mr. Dicker the Field Club loses one 

 of its most active and valuable officers : 



" Besides devoting his scholarship, diverse knowledge, and artistic 

 faculty to the work of Editor, he also acted as Organiser and Secretary 

 of the Earthworks Sub-Committee, and had only recently issued a 

 carefully-prepared and illustrated form inviting the assistance of the 

 landowners, tenants, and clergy of the county in an effort to compile a 

 complete record of all ancient earthworks, stone circles, cromlechs, 

 barrows, and other such relics in the county, with a view to their 

 proper preservation. His help had of late been enlisted in sundry 

 archaeological enterprises in various parts of the county. To Lyme 

 Regis he went to pronounce upon and sketch the newly-found arch of 

 the Norman bridge over the Buddie, to Maumbury Rings to help in the 



