William Arthur Dickins was Archdeacon of Bombay from 1907Ecclesiastical Intelligence. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Aug 08, 1907; pg. 10; Issue 38406 until 1913.Ecclesiastical Intelligence. The Times (London, England), Friday, Aug 01, 1913; pg. 6; Issue 40279
He was born in St Nicholas Vicarage, Emscote, Warwick on 18 April 1861, the son of the Rev. Thomas Bourne Dickins and his wife Sarah Catherine Trow.J. Foster, Oxford Men, 1880-1892 (1893), p. 168; All Saints, Warwick, "Register of Baptisms," at Warwickshire County Record Office, Warwickshire Anglican Registers (Roll: Engl/2/1112; Document Reference: DR 224).
Dickins was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford; Durham University; and Lichfield Theological College. He was made Deacon in the Church of England in 1886, and priested by the Bishop of Lichfield in 1888.Durham University Calendar, 1882, p. 135; Clergy List, 1897, p 260; Crockford's Clerical Directory London, Horace Cox, 1908 p398.
After a curacy in Penn, 1886-1891, he was appointed as a Chaplain on the Bombay ecclesiastical establishment in 1891, going on to serve at Ahmedabad, Nasirabad, Aden, Kirkee, Malabar Hill and Ahmednagar, prior to his appointment as Archdeacon.‘DICKINS, Ven. William Arthur’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 28 Feb 2015
In 1913 he was appointed Vicar of Otterbourne, and then, in 1918, was appointed Vicar of Over Stowey."Obituary" in Leamington Spa Courier (24 June 1921), p. 6.
Dickins died in a nursing home in Margate on 21 June 1921.Leamington Spa Courier, loc. cit.
He was married in Rousham on 31 March 1891 to Constance Mary Nelson.Oxfordshire Family History Society, Oxfordshire, England; Anglican Parish Registers (Reference Number: PAR226/1/R3/3). The couple had a son and a daughter.
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