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Dickens family
Summary
The Dickens family are the descendants of John Dickens, the father of the English novelist Charles Dickens. John Dickens was a clerk in the Royal Navy Pay Office and had eight children from his marriage to Elizabeth Barrow. Their second child and eldest son was Charles Dickens, whose descendants include the novelist Monica Dickens, the writer Lucinda Dickens Hawksley and the actors Harry Lloyd and Brian Forster.
John Dickens was according to his son Charles "a jovial opportunist with no money sense" and was the inspiration for Mr Micawber in David Copperfield.
The family members include:
John Dickens (1785–1851)
married Elizabeth Barrow (1789–1863); 8 children
Frances Elizabeth Dickens (1810–1848) married Henry Burnett in 1837 and had two sons:
- Henry Augustus Burnett (1839–1849)
- Charles Dickens Kneller Burnett (1841–1881) Charles Dickens (1812–1870), English novelist of the Victorian era married Catherine Hogarth (1815–1879); 10 children
- Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (1837–1896), editor and writer, married Elizabeth Matilda Moule Evans; 8 children, including Mary Angela Dickens (1862–1948), journalist and novelist and writer of Children's Stories from Dickens Sydney Margaret Dickens, married Thomas Whinney Humphrey Whinney Michael Humphrey Dickens Whinney (1930–2017), Church of England bishop
- Mary "Mamie" Dickens (1838–1896)
- Catherine Elizabeth Macready Dickens (1839–1929), artist, married (i) Charles Allston Collins (1828–1872), (ii) Charles Edward Perugini (1839–1918); 1 child by (ii), died in infancy.
- Walter Savage Landor Dickens (1841–1863), officer in the British Indian Army
- Francis Jeffrey Dickens (1844–1886), member of the North-West Mounted Police
- Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (1845–1912), emigrated to Australia; lecturer on his father's life; 2 daughters
- Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens (1847–1872), a Royal Navy officer
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