James Jameson Dickson (17 September 1815 – 14 November 1885) was a Scottish Swedish logging industrialist and philanthropist.

Life

Dickson was born in 1815 in

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

. He was the son of James Dickson Sr. James Dickson Sr and his brother had established a timber export business that returned with British cotton goods to Sweden in exchange for the sawn timber.Scotsman with business acumen
foretagsamheten.se, retrieved 21 May 2014 Dickson Jr was educated at

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. The Dickson business employed the largest merchant fleet in Sweden with offices in both Gothenburg and London.Scots in Sweden
Scots in Sweden, by Jonas Berg and Bo Lagercrantz, retrieved 21 May 2014 Dickson and

Oscar Dickson Baron Oscar Dickson, or Oskar Dickson (2 December 1823 – 6 June 1897) was a Swedish magnate, bulk merchant, industrialist and philanthropist from a family of Scottish origin. In his time he was considered the most affluent of all Swedes. Court ...

were credited with acts of philanthropy. The two of them helped the explorer

Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (18 November 183212 August 1901) was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the Fenno-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friher ...

, local Gothenburg good causes and

Artur Hazelius Artur Immanuel Hazelius (30 November 1833 – 27 May 1901) was a Swedish teacher, scholar, folklorist and museum director. He was the founder of both the Nordic Museum (''Nordiska museet'') and the Skansen open-air museum in Stockholm. Back ...

, who created

Nordiska Museet The Nordic Museum ( sv, Nordiska museet) is a museum located on Djurgården, an island in central Stockholm, Sweden, dedicated to the cultural history and ethnography of Sweden from the early modern period (in Swedish history, it is said to begi ...

. Dickson died at his house, Överås Örgryte.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dickson, James Jameson 1815 births 1885 deaths People from Gothenburg 19th-century Swedish businesspeople Uppsala University alumni Swedish people of Scottish descent Businesspeople in timber 19th-century Swedish philanthropists