Charles Wedderburn Dickson (23 February 1863 – 1934) was the director of Jardine Matheson & Co. and member of the Executive Council and

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. Dickson was born 23 February 1863 to W. Dickson and Christina Keswick. His grandfather was

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, and his uncle was Henry Keswick.

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and

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were his cousins. He was educated in Scotland and arrived in Hong Kong in 1884 and lived in Shanghai from 1894 to 1897. He became the director of Jardine Matheson from 1900 to 1906. He was also the Deputy Chairman of

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and director of various local companies. Dickson married to Frances Emmeline Parkes, young daughter of Sir

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, British minister at Tokyo and Peking. They had two daughters, Dorothy Parkes Dickson born in 1895 and Mabel Dickson born in 1900. In 1908, he chose to come overland across America. On arrival he purchased

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which remained the family home until Fanny sold it to the Post Office (presumably as a retirement home) and moved to the Station Hotel where she lived for the rest of her life.

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