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Francis Jeffrey Dickens (15 January 1844 – 11 June 1886) was the third son and fifth child of Victorian English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine Dickens née Hogarth. [1] Early life and career.
Learn about Inspector Francis J. Dickens, the son of Charles Dickens who joined the Canadian Mounted Police.
Jan 22, 2008 · Francis Jeffrey Dickens, North-West Mounted Police inspector (b at London, Eng 15 Jan 1844; d at Moline, Ill 11 June 1886), third son of Charles Dickens. In 1864, after numerous unsuccessful career starts, Dickens joined the Bengal Mounted Police in India.
Francis Dickens made a definite, if negative, impact on the Canadian west. He was partly responsible for the serious deterioration in relations between the NWMP and the Blackfoot in the 1880s. His misadventures also contributed to the strong prejudice against English officers that existed in the mounted police in the late 19th century.
Mar 12, 2016 · One of the first officers of the newly formed North-West Mounted Police, Francis Dickens, son of novelist Charles Dickens, was noted for his famous parentage, if not much else.
Francis Jeffrey Dickens, the son of Charles Dickens and Catherine Hogarth Dickens, was born on 15th January, 1844. At the time he had three brothers and sisters, Charles (6th January, 1837), Mamie (6th March, 1838) and Kate (29th October, 1839).
Diary of Francis Dickens by Dickens, Francis Jeffrey, 1844-1886. Publication date 1930 Topics Pitt, Fort, Saskatchewan, Indians of North America -- Canada -- Government relations Publisher Kingston, The Jackson press Collection trent_university; internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive
Francis Jeffrey Dickens (15 January 1844 – 11 June 1886) was the third son and fifth child of Victorian English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine Dickens née Hogarth. Contents. Early life and career. The Battle of Fort Pitt, 1885. Discharge and death. Character reputation. Francis Dickens in Fiction. See also. Early life and career.
The Visit to Illinois of Charles Dickens, 1842; Of His Sons, Francis Jeffrey Dickens, in 1886, and Alfred Tennyson Dickens, in 1911: What the Illinois State Historical Society Has Published about These Visits.
Charles Dickens's third son was Francis Jeffrey Dickens —"Frank," nicknamed "Chicken Stalker" after the shopkeeper in The Chimes, Dickens's Christmas story of 1844. Frank was, as Peter Ackroyd notes, the child most like his father "in face, gesture and manner" (877).
