Major General Sir Jeremiah Dickson, (ca 1775 - 1848) K.C.B. was a British Army officer and colonial official.

He was the son of Right Reverend William Dickson, Bishop of Down. Dickson entered the army in 1798 joining the 8th Dragoons

8th King's Royal Irish Hussars

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 and was promoted to lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 of the 2nd Dragoon Guards

2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)

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 in 1799 and captain in 1803.

He became a major

Major

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 in the quartermaster

Quartermaster

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's department in 1806 and in 1812, he was appointed assistant quartermaster general

Quartermaster general

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 in Spain

Spain

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 and Portugal

Portugal

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 during the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

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 and was also at the Battle of Waterloo

Battle of Waterloo

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 and the capture of Paris. He was created a Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
in 1815. He continued as assistant quartermaster general in England

England

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 and Ireland

Ireland

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 in after the wars.

Dickson was promoted to major general

Major-General (United Kingdom)

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 in 1837 was put in command of British forces in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

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. In 1844, he was made colonel of the 61st Foot Regiment

61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot

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 and in August 1846, he served as Acting Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. He returned to England where he died in 1848 at the age of 73.