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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.
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.
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 · 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 the eighth of ten children born to English author Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. The most successful of all of Dickens's children, he was a barrister, a KC and Common Serjeant of London, a senior legal office
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.
We think of Henry Fielding (b. 22 April 1707–d. 8 October 1754) above all as a pioneer of the novel genre: “the Founder of a new Province of Writing,” as he puts it in one of the best-known metafictional chapters of Tom Jones.
A page of transcribed shorthand characters in Dickens's hand, which belonged to Henry Fielding Dickens. © Sophie Dickens.
Henry Fielding Dickens was the last surviving son of Charles Dickens. He was named after Henry Fielding, a favourite author of his father. He was educated at Wimbledon and at Boulogne-sur-Mer and entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1868.
