Dickins, Frederick Victor

First name(s)

(Frederick) Victor

Surname

Dickins

Position(s) held at King's College London ^Ref: *2

Professor of Japanese, 1889-1901

Education & professional details

Position(s) held (non King's College London) ^Ref: *3

• Medical officer on HMS Coromandel, 1863
• In charge of medical facilities in Yokohama, 1863-66

Publications ^Ref: *4

• The Collected Works of Frederick Victor Dickins (Bristol: Ganesha, Tokyo: Edition Synapse 1999);
• Life of Sir Harry Parkes (with Stanley Lane-Poole);
• Translated several books from Japanese including works on art, drama as well as classical literature and traditional tales e.g. Chiushingura, or the Loyal League: a Japanese Romance (1875, transl.)

Personal details

Date of birth

24th May 1838

Place of birth ^Ref: *1

London

Date of death

1915

Place of death

[Melksham], Wiltshire

Notes

At one time qualified in law and was also a botanist of some repute