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John Hubert Dickinson (18 April 190131 May 1993) was a British Anglican bishop who served as Assistant Bishop of Melanesia from 1931 to 1937. Family and education Dickinson was born in Longhoughton, Northumberland (UK), the only son of Harry G. Dickinson, priest, and his second wife Edina C. V. Johnson; he was baptised on 23 June 1901 at Longhoughton by his father, and educated at Jesus College, Oxford before training for ordination at Cuddesdon College. In 1937, he married Frances Victoria (daughter of C. F. Thorp, a priest; she died 1991) and they had two daughters. Early ministry Dickinson was made deacon in 1925 and ordained priest in 1926, both at York by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of York. He served as curate of St John's Middlesbrough from 1925 to 1929 and became a Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) missionary in South Tokyo from 1929 to 1931, when he was appointed Assistant Bishop of Melanesia. He was consecrated a bishop on 30 August 1931 by Alfred Averill, Bishop of Auckland, at St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington. He held the post of assistant bishop (for the Southern archdeaconry) until he resigned before April 1937.

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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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Notable quotes

“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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