Thomas William Dickinson, 1911 - 1913

Born in 1859, Dickinson became a member of Wolverhampton Council in 1900 as a Liberal. He served on many committees, and was chairman of the Sewerage and Water committees and also of the Staffordshire Mental Hospital Board. He represented the council on the Tame Basin Joint Committee, the Trent Fishery Board and the River Severn Catchment Board. He was married twice: his first wife was a daughter of Alderman J Annan; and his second a daughter of James Bashford of Greville Lodge, Warwick. He began his working life as a wholesale fruit merchant and later became a farmer. Consequently he become president of the National Federation of Fruit and Potato Traders in 1929. He became director of South Staffordshire Permanent Building Society in 1908, and its chairman in 1916, a position he occupied until ill health forced him to resign in 1941. He was the Governor of Tettenhall College for forty years, was a justice of the peace and the chairman of Licensing Magistrates. He held the position of mayor for two consecutive years, from 1911 until 1913. During forty-one years of council work he only missed one meeting, due to poor health shortly before his death. He was a Congregationalist with Queen Street Church and he was made Freeman of Wolverhampton in 1938. He died at his home at Palmers Cross, Tettenhall, on the 17th September 1942, aged eighty-three.

Obituary Express and Star 17th September 1942.
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