Dickon

Dickon is an English masculine given name.

The name "Dickon" is derived from the old English name for Richard. Unlike Richard, Dickon is rarely shortened to Dick or Dickie, as it is already commonly considered a short form of the same name. Somewhat amusingly, the -on suffix is a diminutive, so "Dickon" means "little Dick".^{[citation needed]}

The first recorded literary reference to the name is of a painting of King Richard III entitled Dickon of York.^{[citation needed]}

People by the name Dickon

• Dickon Edwards (born 1971), London-based indie pop musician, writer, critic, DJ and online diarist
• Dickon Tolson (born 1973), British actor

Fictional characters

• Bart Dickon, a British comic strip character frequently appearing in the magazine The Chap in the late nineties.
• Dickon, one of the main characters in the novel The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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