Dickens family

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.

The Dickens family (and friends) in 1864 - (l-r) Charles Dickens Jr., Kate Dickens, Charles Dickens, Miss Hogarth, Mary Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Georgina Hogarth

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.

Family

The family members include:

  • John Dickens (1785–1851), married Elizabeth Barrow (1789–1863)
  • Frances Elizabeth Dickens (1810–1848), married Henry Burnett
  • Henry Augustus Burnett (1839–1849)
  • Charles Dickens Kneller Burnett (1841–1881)
  • Mary Angela Dickens (1862–1948), journalist and novelist and writer of Children's Stories from Dickens[1]
  • Sydney Margaret Dickens (b. 1866), married Thomas Bostock Whinney (1860−1926), architect
  • Margaret Dickens Whinney (1897–1974), art historian[2]
  • Humphrey Charles Dickens Whinney (1899−1982), married Evelyn Revell Low
  • Michael Humphrey Dickens Whinney (1930–2017), Anglican bishop
  • Philip Charles Dickens Whinny (1901−1959)
  • Leonard Ralph Dickens Perugini (1875−1876)
  • Walter Savage Landor Dickens (1841–1863), Indian Army officer
  • Francis Jeffrey Dickens (1844–1886), Canadian mounted policeman
  • Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (1845–1912), lecturer on his father's life, married (i) Augusta Jessie Devlin (1849−1878), (ii) Emily Riley (1863−1913)
  • Kathleen Mary Dickens (1874−1951)
  • Violet Georgina Dickens (1875–1952)
  • Enid Henrietta Dickens (1877–1950), married Ernest Bouchier Hawksley (1876–1931)
  • Jennifer Raine Downing (1932–1993), actress, married Peter Cochrane Forster (1920–1982)
  • Cyril Dickens Bouchier Hawksley (1909–1976)
  • Henry Dickens Bouchier Hawksley (b. 1932)
  • Joanna Mary Dickens Baldwin
  • Virginia (Ginny) Jane Dickens Hawksley-Lennard
  • Lucinda Anne Dickens Hawksley (b. 1977), author
  • Henry Charles Dickens (1878–1966) m Fanny Runge
  • Peter Gerald Charles Dickens (1917–1987), Royal Navy officer, married Mary Alice Blagrove
  • Mark Dickens, Royal Navy officer[5]
  • Marion Evelyn Dickens, married Jonathan Lloyd
  • David Charles Dickens (1925–2005), medical editor
  • Gerald Charles Dickens (b. 1963), actor, married (i) Lucy Marsh, (ii) Elizabeth Hayes
  • Cameron Thomas Charles Dickens
  • Philip Charles Dickens (1887–1964)
  • Cedric Charles Dickens (1916–2006), writer and businessman
  • Cedric Charles Dickens (1889–1916)
  • Alfred Allen Dickens (b. and d. 1814)
  • Letitia Dickens (1816–1893), married Henry Austin, architect and artist
  • Harriet Dickens (1819–1822)
  • Frederick Dickens (1820–1868), married Anna Weller[6]
  • Alfred Lamert Dickens (1822–1860), railway engineer, amarried Helen Dobson
  • Alfred Charles Dickens (1847–1878)
  • Edmund Henry Dickens (1849–1910)
  • Florence Helen Dickens (1850–1941)
  • Katherine Louisa Dickens (1853–1921)
  • Augusta Maud Dickens (1857–1941)
  • Augustus Dickens (1827–1866), land agent, married Harriet Lovell [7][8]

References
  1. "1891 Census".
  2. "Whinney, Margaret [Dickens]". The Dictionary of Art Historians. Archived from the original on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  3. Descendants of Archibald Kenrick Archived 2015-04-20 at the Wayback Machine,
  4. C'MonGetHappy.com: An Interview With Brian Forster, Pt 1
  5. Mark Dickens, Dickens Fellowship. Archived January 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  6. Peter Ackroyd 'Dickens' Published by Sinclair-Stevenson (1990) pg 266
  7. 'Eulogy for Augustus Dickens and Bertha Phillips', the Chicago Dickens Fellowship
  8. 'THE STORY OF MRS AUGUSTUS DICKENS' Timaru Herald, Rōrahi X, Putanga 414, 15 Haratua 1869, Page 4

Further reading
  • Peter Ackroyd, Dickens (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990)
  • Wolf Mankowitz, Dickens of London (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976)
  • J. B. Priestley, Charles Dickens. A Pictorial Biography (Thames & Hudson, 1961)
  • Michael Slater, Charles Dickens (Yale University Press, 2009)
  • Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens. A Life (Viking, 2011)
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