Dickinson, Charles

Dickinson, Charles an Irish prelate, was born in August 1792, at Cork, Ireland. He graduated, in 1815, from Trinity College, Dublin, with distinction; in 1819 was appointed assistant chaplain of the Magdalen Asylum, and three years later at the Female Orphan House, where he continued for nine years; next became one of the archbishop of Dublin's chaplains; in July, 1833, was appointed to the parish of St. Ann's, Dublin; in 1840 was made bishop of Meath, and died July 12, 1842. See The Church of England Magazine, August 1846, page 107.