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John Dickinson

chief magistrate of the Metropolitan Police Courts until 1920

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John Dickinson

chief magistrate of the Metropolitan Police Courts until 1920

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Sir John Dickinson was a British barrister who was chief magistrate of the Metropolitan Police Courts from 1913 until 1920. On his retirement he was replaced by Sir Chartres Biron.

Occupation: judge
Born: 1848

Not who you're looking for? Others named John Dickinson: American politician (1732-1808) · British inventor · Australian judge and politician · Anglican bishop

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“It is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives.”
— From the first draft of the Declaration of Rights and Grievances passed October 19, 1765 by The First Congress of the American Colonies, also known as the Stamp Act Congress; as cited in John Dickinson and the Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1764-1776, David Louis Jacobson, University of California Press (1965), p. 32
“Let us take care of our rights, and we therein take care of our property. 'Slavery is ever preceded by sleep.'”
— From Letters from a Farmer, in Pennsylvania, to the inhabitants of the British Colonies, Letter XII, Dickinson, Philadelphia
“Our cause is just, our union is perfect.”
— Declaration on taking up Arms in 1775. From the original manuscript draft in Dickinson's handwriting, which has given rise to the belief that he, not Jefferson (as formerly claimed), is the real author of this sentence.

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Sir John Dickinson was a British barrister who was chief magistrate of the Metropolitan Police Courts from 1913 until 1920. On his retirement he was replaced by Sir Chartres Biron.

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