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Sir James Robert Dickson (30 November 1832 – 10 January 1901) was an Australian politician and businessman, the 13th Premier of Queensland and a member of the first federal ministry. Dickson was born in Plymouth, Devon, and migrated initially to Victoria in 1854. He settled in Queensland in 1862, becoming an auctioneer.
A wealthy and influential businessman, he was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Enoggera in 1873. In the so-called Continuous Ministry of the late 1890s, Dickson attained the positions of Secretary for Railways in 1897, and Postmaster-General and Home Secretary in 1898-99. He was made Premier in September 1898 after the death of Thomas Byrnes.
The Continuous Ministry by this stage was falling apart, and Dickson had only a brief period in office before Anderson Dawson gained the support of the Legislative Assembly to become the leader of the world’s