Archibald Campbell Dickie was born in Dundee, Scotland on 10 June 1868. He was articled to John Carver (1833-1896) in Forfar, Scotland in 1885 and remained with him as his assistant. He also attended Architectural Association classes.
By the early 1890s he had moved to London where he worked in the offices of Frederick Beeston and John William Stanley Buemester (1858-1940) and Frederick H. Jones. Dickie qualified as an architect in 1894 and the following year was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA). Between 1894 and 1897 he was employed as Architect to the Palestine Exploration Fund Exhibition.
Following his return to London he worked in the offices of Beresford Pite (1861-1934). For a period he was in partnership with William Curtis Green (1875-1960) and from 1905 to 1911 was in partnership with Claude Augustine Kelly (1875-1922.) as Kelly & Dickie. From 1912 to 1933 Dickie was Professor of Architecture at Victoria University of Manchester.
Photographs of a lodge and gates in Wellington Park, and a house in Chislehurst designed by Dickie and William Curtis Green were shown in the 8th exhibition of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society at the Grafton Galleries in London in 1906.
Throughout his career, Dickie retained an interest in archaeology and was a member of the Palestine Exploration Fund executive committee from 1906 to 1941 and was its secretary from 1910 to 1912.
His address was given as 25 Parliament Street, London in 1895; 21 Bedford Row, London in 1903; 466 Marble Arch, Oxford Street, London in 1907; and Victoria University, Manchester in 1914. He died in London on 3 September 1941.
A biographical file on Dickie is available on request from the Enquiry Desk, Royal Institute of British Architects Library, London
Kelly and Dickie: — Roman Catholic Churches at Lewisham and Clapham; interior decoration of Memorial Church at Petersham, Surrey; Mission Hospital at Helson. Dickie and Scott: — House at the Hague, Holland. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1926]
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