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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.
Learn about the life and career of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, the sixth son of novelist Charles Dickens and a lawyer. See four portraits of him from the NPG collection, including one by his father's friend Leslie Ward.
Feb 7, 2012 · 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 Henry Dickens was to follow his namesake into a successful career in the law.
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.
Sep 28, 2012 · Summary. Fielding was long admired for his representation of a certain classic Englishness to be found nowhere else in such perfection outside the borders of his novels.
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.
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."
