Dickson was born in the
Auckland suburb of
Birkenhead on 11 May 1931, the son of Mavis Ellen Dickson (née Smith) and James Dickson. In 1958, he married Alison Rae Patterson, and the couple went on to have three children. In the
1989 Queen's Birthday Honours, Dickson was appointed a
Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to banking and the community. In March 2009, he was commemorated as one of Christchurch's
Twelve Local Heroes, and a bust of Dickson, sculpted by Mark Whyte, was unveiled at the
Christchurch Arts Centre. Dickson's wife, Rae, died in 2021. Dickson died in Christchurch on 2 March 2023, at the age of 91. ==References==