the army list. He was
at the disastrous affair of New Orleans, but returned to Europe in time
for the Waterloo campaign. He was present at Quatre Bras and Waterloo on
the artillery staff of Wellington's army, and subsequently commanded the
British battering train at the sieges of the French fortresses left
behind the advancing allies. For the rest of his life he was on home
service, principally as a staff officer of artillery. He died, a
major-general and G.C.B., in 1840. A memorial was erected at Woolwich in
1847. Dickson was one of the earliest fellows of the Royal Geographical
Society.

His diaries kept in the Peninsula were the main source of information
used in Duncan's _History of the Royal Artillery_.

DICKSON, SIR JAMES ROBERT (1832-1901), Australian statesman, was born in
Plymouth on the 30th of November 1832. He was brought up in Glasgow,
receiving his education at the high school, and became a clerk in the
City of Glasgow Bank. In 1854 he emigrated to Victoria, but after some
years spent in that colony and in New South Wales, he settled in 1862 in
Queensland, where he was connected with many important business
enterprises, among them the Royal Bank of Queensland. He entered the
Queensland House of Assembly in 1872, and became minister of works
(1876), treasurer (1876-1879, and 1883-1887), acting premier (1884), but
resigned in 1887 on the question of taxing land. In 1889 he retired from
business, and spent three years in Europe before resuming political
life. He fought for the introduction of Polynesian labour on the
Queensland sugar plantations at the general election of 1892, and was
elected to the House of Assembly in that year and again at the elections
of 1893 and 1896. He became secretary for railways in 1897, minister for
home affairs in 1898, represented Queensland in the federal council of
Australia in 1896 and at the postal conference at Hobart in 1898, and in
1898 became premier. His energies were now devoted to the formation of
an Australian commonwealth. He secured the reference of the question to
a plebiscite, the result of which justified his anticipations. He
resigned the premiership in November 1899, but in the ministry of Robert
Philp, formed in the next month, he was reappointed to the offices of
chief secretary and vice-president of the executive council which he had
combined with the office of premier. He represented Queensland in 1900
at the conference held in London to consi