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Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, KC (16 January 1849 – 21 December 1933) was an English barrister, who served as a KC and Common Serjeant of London. He was the eighth of ten children born to English author Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine, and the last surviving child of Dickens.
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Henry Fielding Dickens, the eighth child of Charles Dickens and Catherine Hogarth Dickens, was born on 16th January, 1849. Dickens named him after the novelist, Henry Fielding. At the time Dickens was writing David Copperfield and he told John Forster that this was in "a kind of homage to the style of the novel he was about to write."
Sir Henry Fielding Dickens (16 January 1849 – 21 December 1933) Named after the famous author Henry Fielding, Henry (known as "Harry" to his friends and family) was the most successful of the Dickens children. He became a successful barrister and was appointed King's Counsel.
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Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, KC (16 January 1849 – 21 December 1933) was an English barrister, who served as a KC and Common Serjeant of London. He was the eighth of ten children born to English author Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine, and the last surviving child of Dickens.
May 13, 2021 · The son with the eminently literary name made his mark socially and professionally above all the other Dickens children, but not as a writer: Henry Fielding Dickens, King's Counsel, was the only one of the Dickens children to graduate from university and enter one of the learned professions.
Feb 7, 2012 · Henry Fielding Dickens, who was born in January 1849, was the eighth of the ten children born to the author and his wife Catherine. He was named after one of the 18 th -century writers whom Charles most admired – Henry Fielding, a humane and perceptive magistrate as well as the author of Joseph Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones (1749) – and ...
Sir Henry Fielding Dickens. (1849-1933), Lawyer; son of Charles Dickens. Sitter in 4 portraits. Dickens was the sixth son of novelist Charles Dickens and named after author Henry Fielding. Called to the Bar in 1873, he commenced practice on the Kent Sessions and Home Circuit before moving to general practice in London.
