Herbert Matthew Dickson
| Herbert Matthew Dickson MBE | |
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| Nicknames | Gaffer, Gad |
| Died | 20 June 1967 |
| Education | Natural sciences, Fitzwilliam Hall, Cambridge |
| Roles | Senior Science Master; Senior Master from 1949, and later Deputy head (c1950-1962); Acting headmaster (1954) |
| Years at BGS | 1927-1962 |
| Departments | Science |
| Notable work(s) | Air Training Corps; received an MBE in 1962 |
| Home town | Swindon (Wiltshire) |
| Children | John Lewis Dickson |
Herbert Matthew Dickson was a teacher of science at Boston Grammar School (1927-62).
Dickson was brought up in Swindon. He came to BGS as a science teacher in 1927 with an honours degree in natural sciences from Fitzwilliam Hall, Cambridge and after a spell lecturing at Woolwich Polytechnic. Dickson was acting headmaster for a while, when Leslie Thomas Waddams left in 1954. In 1962 he was awarded the MBE and he also left BGS in that year.
He was a founder governor and Chairman of Pilgrim College a member of Boston Preservation Trust, Secretary of the Caledonian Society of Holland, a member of the Civil Defence Corps and formed the CCF:BGS Air Training Corps.
Upon his retirement, the annual Dickson Science Prize was instituted by the Old Bostonian Association in his honour.
Dickson was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List of 1963. The award was for his Civil Defence work. He had been Chief Scientific Intelligence Officer of Holland Corps of Civil Defence since 1952.
Edwin Killick (BGS 1955-1962) remembers...
...the time we bought Gaffer ("Gad") Dickson a parcel of candles after he had complained about the poor lighting in the Boston area. We were reprimanded for it by our form-master, "Laddy" Lockwood, but Gaffer saw the funny side and actually apologised to us for Laddy's actions afterwards. I remember Gaffer`s habit of picking the warts on the back of his hand.