Oscar Dickson, 1st Baron Dickson

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Oscar Dickson, or Oskar Dickson, was born in 1823 in Göteborg, Sweden and died in 1897 at his estate at Almnäs, close to Stockholm. He was a Swedish magnate, bulk merchant, industrialist and philantropist from a family of Scottish origin. In his time he was considered the most affluent of all Swedes.

Dickson, along with King Oscar II of Sweden and Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Sibiryakov, was the patron of a number of Arctic expeditions in the 1800s. He sponsored Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld's explorations to the Russian Arctic and Greenland, as well as Fridtjof Nansen's Polar journey on the Fram.

Ever an Arctic enthusiast, Oscar Dickson contributed to sponsor several important Polar ventures between the years 1860 and 1900. Dickson was made a Baron in 1885 by King Oscar.

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Dikson Island in the Kara Sea has been named after Oscar Dickson.^[1]

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