Page:Notes and Queries - Series 12 - Volume 9.djvu/107

12 S. IX. JULY 30, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 81

NOTES: Dickson Family of Edinburgh, 81 The Ivory Gate of Virgil: English Misconception, 84 Principal London Coffee-houses, Taverns and Inns in the Eighteenth Century, 85 Christ's Hospital and the Navy Saunders Welch, 87 An Unpublished Letter of Lady Hamilton Carlyle and a Bookseller Petronius and a Modern Advertisement, 88 The Aske Family London Clubs Bibliography, 89

QUERIES: Whyte-Melville and Adam Lindsay Gordon- Appointment of the Mayor by an Abbot, 89 Proverbial Sayings Captain Jones Cruttenden Family " Miss Croker," by Sir Thomas Lawrence Parsons Family y..-.irriage Ralph Izard Samuel Matthews, Organist Dr. John Misaubin Milborne Morrison Thomas Parratt Meredith Valentine Randolph, 90 George Quarme Baron Ricasoli Daily Advertiser- Sabine The Mystery of Richard Parker of the Nore Dr. John Keave of Etor Apple Christening " Made t hem eat Beans "- " Cuckoo Pen " and " Cuckoo Pound," 91 Sidesman Sir Thomas Miller, of Chichester Authors wanted, 92. REPLIES : " To Curry Favour," 92 Williams, Executed 1618 Vcre es wanted : Conjugal Squabbles Sir Benjamin Hammctt James Macburney, C3 Acid Test The Smallest Pig of a Litter Combe House, Herefordshire Aide burgh :Ecrevisse Double Firsts at Oxford Disraeli, Rogers, or Shaftesbury, 94 " A Frog he would a- wooing go " Signs in place of Signatures Single Whiskey Petty France Wife's Death 14o Years after Her Husband's Birth Elephant and C*stle, 95 Six Lords : Chewar Bomenteek Agricultural and Horticultural Writers: Biographical Details Wanted School Magazine, 96 Danteiana The Hon. Frances Ingram-Shepherd The Ingoldsby Legends American English The Plague Pits, 97 Poems for Children, Titles Wanted Oak Snuff-box- Martin (Marten) Reference Wanted, 98 H orse-riding Records Viscount Stafford, 1680 Robert Parr De Valera, 99. NOTES ON BOOKS : ' A Short History of Scotland ' 'The Octccentenary of Reading Abbey' 'The Eton College Reg'ster, 1753 1790' 'The Cambridge Scene' 'The Print-Collector's Quarterly/ Notices to Correspondents. DICKSON FAMILY OF EDINBURGH. SINCE writing the Note on this family to which you kindly gave publicity under 12 S. ix. 49, I have obtained a considerable amount of information from several of your readers particularly from Mr. R. Gordon Smith, of Manor Road, Brockley for which I am very grateful. It is thought that Dickson, the fur mer- chant, was a connexion of the Dicksons of Hartree, and I think proof of this might be obtained if the full pedigree of the family of Dickson of Hartree was compiled. John Dickson acquired the lands of Kil- bucho in 1630, and those of Hartree in 1633. In 1649 he was raised to the Bench as Lord Hartree. At his decease he gave the lands of Kilbucho to his son William, who was a Commissioner of Supply, in 1704, and the lands of Hartree to his son John, also a Com- missioner of Supply in 1704, but the two estates became united in the early part of this century. The first-named John Dickson, of Kilbucho and Hartree, had 18 chil- dren, 10 of whom appear to be unaccounted for. He died in 1653. I understand there is a great mass of papers and letters carefully docketed and separated into various boxes for various generations at Hartree, and if these documents were examined the con- nexion between the two families might be established. In, 1908, Major-General J. B. B. Dickson (who will be mentioned later) wrote me : " I always understood that my father's family came from Hartree." One of the daughters of the fur merchant became a Mrs. Dodds, but so far I have been unable to obtain any information about her husband. It is thought that the fur merchant's youngest son was named James and that he married and had a daughter, Isabella Dick- son, who married James Simpson at Ravels- ton, on Nov. 26, 1790. James Simpson was factor, or something of that sort, to Sir William Foulis, Bart. James Simpson died April 27, 1819, and his wife on July 2 (?), 1830, leaving with other issue, Helen, born Sept. 24, 1795, married John Anderson, July 23, 1824, and died in 1863. With regard to the children of Samuel Dickson mentioned under 3 and 7 in my last note : 3. Samuel Dickson was born March 29, 1777. He resided in Edinburgh, and was a Writer to the Signet ; but I have not been * able to obtain any information about him except that he married and had issue : 1. Samuel, born in Edinburgh, 1802, of whom presently. 2. Thomas, died at St. Vincent. 3. James. 4. George. The date of Sanrnel Dickson's death is un- known. His eldest son, Samuel, born 1802, M.D., author of ' Chromo-Thermal System of Medicine at Edinburgh,' L.R.C.S. Edin. 1825, obtained a commission as Asst.-Sur- geon in the Army and went to India to join the 30th Regt. of Foot. During five years' service in India he acquired a large surgical experience. On Jiis return home in 1833 he took his M.D. degree at Glasgow and began private practice at Cheltenham. He sub- sequently removed to Mayfair. Was also author of 'Hints on Cholera,' &c. The doctor married Aug. 1, 1832, Eliza, second