Rev. Dr. James Francis Dickie was born on November 13, 1845, in Kilmarnock, Ayr, Scotland.
He was a Presbyterian clergyman and author. He was educated in Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities in Scotland. In 1872, he was inducted into the position of pastor of St. Andrews Church in Kitchener (then called Berlin), Waterloo Region, Ontario, a large settlement of residents of German origin. It was here that Dickie acquired an interest in German life and language. In the late 1870s, he accepted a call to the Central Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Michigan. In 1884, he was appointed minister to the American and British Church in Nollendorf Platz, Berlin, Germany where he stayed until his retirement in 1924. He wrote the books "In the Kaiser's Capital" (1910), "Germany" (1912), and "Seven Christmas Trees" (1930).
In 1875, he married Louise Beck (1847–1927) and in 1927, he married Grace MacKenzie (1863–1933). He died on May 28, 1933, in Marine City, St. Clair, Michigan.
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson was born on August 6, 1862, in London, England.
He was a British political scientist, philosopher, and author. In 1884, he graduated from King's College, Cambridge, and won the Chancellor's English medal for a poem on Savonarola. He became a Fellow of King's College in 1887 and served as the college librarian from 1893 to 1896. He joined the Society for Psychical Research in 1890 and served on its Council from 1904 to 1920. In 1903, he helped found the Independent Review. Dickinson taught courses on political science at Cambridge University and the London School of Economics from 1896 to 1920. He had a passionate desire for the improvement of mankind and the sense of service that impelled him into the public sphere. From the start of the First World War, Dickinson was an advocate of the League of Nations. He retired from teaching in 1920, but until the end of his life, he wrote prolifically, especially on Goethe and Plato, both the subjects of several radio broadcasts in 1930–1931. He was the author of “Revolution and Reaction in Modern France” (1892), “The Development of Parliament during the Nineteenth Century” (1895), “The Greek View of Life” (1896), “Letters from John Chinaman” (1901), and "A Modern Symposium" (1905). In 1934, Dickinson's friend E. M. Forster published his biography, "Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson".
He died on August 3, 1932, in London, England.
