A Naval Biographical Dictionary: Comprising the Life and ...
William R. O'Byrne
DAvid JoHN DIckson, born 24 Oct. 1790, at Sydenham House, near Kelso, is eldest son of the late Wm. Dickson, Esq., Admiral of the Blue, who died in 1803, by his second wife, Miss Elizabeth Charteris; and half-uncle of the present Sir Wm.