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Charles Dickens. Catherine Hogarth. Signature. Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, KC (16 January 1849 [1] – 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, [2] [3] 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, 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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May 13, 2021 · By kind permission. The eighth child and sixth son of Charles and Catherine Dickens was baptised as Henry Fielding Dickens in St. Mary, Marylebone, on 21 April 1849, three months after his birth. From the start, he broke the mould of his siblings, for his father did not name him after influential, artistic, or powerfully-connected godfathers ...
Jul 5, 2012 · Henry Fielding Dickens (1849-1933) – Henry was nicknamed Harry and is often called the most successful of Dickens’ children. He was a sportsman and had a very successful career in law. In 1922 he was knighted.
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 ...
On the death of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens in 1933, his will provided that, if the majority of his family were in favour of publication, The Life of Our Lord should be given to the world. By majority vote, Sir Henry's widow and children decided to publish the book in London. [3]
