Excerpt from Transactions Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, Vol. 26 In the death of General Sir Collingwood Dickson, V.C., the Society has lost its Oldest Fellow, Sir Collingwood having been elected in 1851. Our late vice-president was born on November 23rd, 1817. He was the son of major-general Sir A. Dickson, and Eularia, daughter Of Don Stephen Briones. Sir Collingwood entered the Royal Artillery in 1885, and served in the Crimea 1854 - 55. For his brave deeds during that war, which are noticed by Kinglake, he was awarded the Victoria Cross. During the last few years he was an invalid, but manifested in his letters an unfailing interest in the welfare of the Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.