Aberdeen Press and Journal – Monday 15 April 1895
London evening News – Saturday 13 April 1895
Colonel Archibald Dickson of Chatto has died suddenly at Hassendeanburn, Hawick and of 13 Hans Place London. The eldest son of the late Mr James Dean Dickson of Chatto, Roxburghshire, he was born in 1829 and was a magistrate for Berwickshire and a magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Roxburgh. He was Lieutenant-Colonel and Hon. Colonel of the South East of Scotland Artillery Militia, the Southern Division of the R.A.. from 1875 to 1885, and had been Hon.C0lonel of the battalion from 1891. Colonel Dickson married in 1880 Alice, daughter of the late J.W. Seaburne May.
Buckingham Express – Saturday 26th October 1895
Manchester Courier – Saturday 19 October 1895
The Scotch confirmation, under seal of the Sheriffdom of Roxburgh, of the disposition and settlement of Colonel Archibald Dickson, of Chatto and Huntlaw, who resided at Hassendeanburn, near Hawick and Hans Place, London, and died on April 9, granted to Mrs Alice Florence Seaburne May or Dickson, the widow, the executrix nominate was resealed in London October 5, the value of the personal estate in England and Scotland amounting to £88,560. (that is equivalent to 14.5 million pounds in 2024!)
Alice Florence Seaburne May was the sister to Sir William Henry May. When she died she left the estate in Scotland to him.
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