STUART ALAN DICKINSON

Published on 06/01/2023

STUART ALAN DICKINSON December 29th 1934 - May 21st 2022. We write this notice on the occasion of our father's 88th birthday and 7 months since we lost him to Alzheimers on May 21st. Stuart Alan Dickinson was born in March, Cambridgeshire on December 29th, 1934, the eldest boy of 6 brothers and sisters - Christopher, Bruce, Rodney, Anne, and Betty and deeply loved by his mother Ethel and father Maurice. A keen athlete in his youth, he entered Loughborough College where his studies prepared him to be a fine teacher. After marriage to our mother Janet they moved to Norfolk where his teaching, rapport and love for the children at the Hospital School and Cliff Park School became things of legend. He was a special man, a kind, funny and gregarious man. He was patient and supportive of our mother's stellar career in education and despite his natural gifts as a teacher was keen to take early retirement where he could support her better while nurturing his newfound passion for fountain pens. He would become one of the country's leading authorities and restorers of classic fountain pens and curated a formidable collection in his workshop at our home in Oulton Broad, Suffolk. A brilliant father to his sons Tim and Rob, he was supportive and knowledgeable about all our passions whether they be fishing, sailing, soccer, music, or cars. He was as excited as we were and continued the tradition with his grandchildren Fin, Sam and Julian and their mothers Steph and Tina, whom he all adored. Our father could do anything - fix anything, build anything, sing anything, he could paint, he could draw and somehow coax a tune out of any musical instrument. He spoke beautifully fluent French and with our mother widened our horizons and switched us on to travel and adventure and the joys of France through glorious holidays in Languedoc and Provence in the 1970's. He switched us on to Bob Dylan and Spike Milligan and the profound, the absurd and the hilarious. Rest in peace on your birthday Dad, knowing you are remembered with immense love and affection by your family and the many people whose lives you touched. You steered and inspired us to explore our own paths with fearless determination - you were our beacon for goodness and shone brightly for us all.

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