Supposedly in about 1821 / 22, after the dissolution of the former commercial partnerships G.F.Dickson moved with his family, i.e. with his wife Jane, his three surviving children (Frederick Cartwright, 8, Thomas Ashton, 7, and Jane Elizabeth, 3) and with his black servant Charles (whom he had bought in Buenos Aires as a slave) back to England, i.e. to Liverpool. At first they lived in 4, High Street, where G.F.Dickson -  now apparently with Robert Montgomery as his remaining partner -   ran a bank in addition to the South American trade as such (see bottom of page).
 
Though it seems to be obvious to suppose a connection between the change of places and the dissolution of the commercial partnerships, the return to England may also have been led by private motives, for instance by concern over his children's health, after two of his five children born in Buenos Aires had died soon after their birth. It is also a bit eye-catching that the three surviving children were (newly?) christened soon after the family's return to England, shortly before the birth of the fourth child, as can be traced in the church records of  St.George's Church (below):

The following of G.F.Dickson's addresses in Liverpool and Everton are known to us:

In the year 1824 G.F.Dickson bought the "bifold" villa of the just deceased John Hind; the change of houses is announced in the "Gazetteer of the County" for 1824  (see below), the Villa and the story of its creation / development are extensively described in the "History of Everton" (1830, see below).

Also in Liverpool the overseas trade stayed G.F.Dickson's predominant field of activities.  After in Buenos Aires the first River Plate (Argentinian) bank had been founded in the year 1822, the "Banco de Descuento", with three British merchants in its board, one of them G.F.Dickson's partner Robert Montgomery, for Dickson & Co. also their own banking business seems to have gained importance. The author of "Five years residence in Buenos Ayres" (see right) refers to this when speaking of the "establishment of the Bank":

In the year 1828, during the war of the River Plate, a large quantity of goods belonging to G.F.Dickson, on board of the  Argentinian ship "Felix" was taken and confiscated by Brazil. This was the beginning of a long term legal controversy between G.F.Dickson and the Brazilian government.

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 Whereas in the USA slavery was eventually abolished in 1865,

Prussia

had banned slave trade by law in

1715

(along with the

Below: G.F.Dickson probably between the age of 40 and 45 (pencil sketch by T.Hargreaves)

In Everton also the Dicksons' three youngest children were born and christened:

ban of witch torture and the introduction of compulsory school attendance, against all modern prejudices) after Frederick William I who was strongly influenced by

had ascended the throne in 1713. The background of this step was the fact that Prussia before had become a colonial power under the Great Elector and still had

in Africa (parts of

, Mauretania and Benin) and America (in the Caribbean) from where Dutch and Prussian merchants had led the international slave trade ot the time (30 000 Africans  were deported via

in Ghana, for instance) but now in 1715 were stopped doing this by Prussian law. This may have contributed to the country giving up its colonies by 1720 / 1724.