Dick Callum
Name:	Dick Callum
Gender:	male
Birthdate:
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Position:	commander of Dixon's Farm sled Able Seaman of Teasel detective, forensic scientist and photographer of Scotland Yard Scientist to SADMC captain of Scarab Ship's Naturalist of Sea Bear
Loyalty:	Callum family The Ds Dixon's Farm North Polar Expedition Teasel Titmouse The Coot Club SADMC Scotland Yard Picts Scarab Sea Bear Great Northern Divers
Enemies:	George Owdon Squashy Hat (temporarily) Mr Jemmerling
Usual Residence:	London (assumed); school somewhere in the Midlands (he met Dorothea at Crewe on their way to the Lake - PM2)
Future career:	will amass great wealth (CC13)

"Sorry. I didn't hear what you were saying." (Dick, BS22)

Dick Callum is a young astronomer, scientist, naturalist and master of the Scarab.Dick and his sister Dorothea Callum are often mentioned as a pair, the Ds.

Dorothea says that both of them can swim and Dick got first prize at school for men under twelve. Dick says Boys, but everyone had understood (CC9). He is A smallish boy with large black-rimmed spectacles (BS9). At various times Dick was nervously cleaning his spectacles (BS10,14).

Dick lives in London, where his father, Professor Callum is an academic archaeologist.

Dick is socially awkward and often fails to follow others' conversation: "Sorry. I didn't hear what you were saying." (BS22) but he is valued at times of crisis: After the tunnel collapse, just as when they found the cragfast sheep in the winter holidays, he seemed to be thinking of everything art once and know what to do. (PP24)

Dick has manual skill as well as scientific knowledge: he is able to carve wooden cleats for the sledge built for the Ds by Mr Dixon (WH13). He is also able to build the pigeon-activated alarm at Beckfoot (PP6)

FutureEdit

Dick Callum is described as prudent and will amass great wealth by a fortune-telling automatic weighing machine at Bridge Stores, Potter Heigham (CC13).

Callum Reif, an adult scientist character resembling Dick is featured in Julia Jones's Strong Winds trilogy.

AppearancesEdit

• Winter Holiday: Meets the Swallows and Amazons, sucessful expedition to North Pole
• Coot Club: Learns to sail
• Pigeon Post: Scientist to SADMC mineral exploration
• The Big Six: Detective and forensic scientist and photographer, helps to solve boat vandalism mystery
• The Picts and the Martyrs: Pict and scientist to SADMC mineral assaying
• 'Coots in the North': mentioned by protagonists the Death and Glories, sketched appearance in notes to this incomplete story
• Great Northern?: Ship's naturalist and photographer, Dick has his most central role in a plot

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