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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Mr. Robert A. Dick

Mr. Robert A. Dick , who was elected to represent Leith Ward in the Dunedin City Council in 1883, and resigned in September, 1884, was born on the island of St. Helena in 1853, and was a son of the Hon. Thomas Dick. He was brought to New Zealand when a child, and was educated at Mr. J. H. Shaw's Grammar School, Dunedin, the Otago Boys' High School, and the Otago University. Later on Mr. Dick qualified as a lawyer, and afterwards practised his profession, in partnership with Mr. Webb, in Dunedin: Late in the eighties he went to Napier, and in 1890 he was drowned while bathing near the township.