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Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (28 October 1845 – 2 January 1912) was an English lecturer. The sixth child and fourth son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine, Dickens made lecture tours in Australia, Europe, and the United States on his father's life and work.
5 de sept. de 2023 · Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (1845 - 1912) Born 28 Oct 1845 in London, England, United Kingdom. Ancestors. Son of Charles John Huffam Dickens and Catherine Thomson (Hogarth) Dickens.
Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (28 October 1845 – 2 January 1912) was an English lecturer. The sixth child and fourth son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine, Dickens made lecture tours in Australia, Europe, and the United States on his father's life and work.
Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (28 October 1845 – 2 January 1912) Alfred was named after his two godfathers Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Alfred, Count d'Orsay. His father nicknamed him "Sampson Brass" and "Skittles" Like most of the Dickens children, Alfred failed to achieve much in his life.
Dickens was so convinced of the redeeming qualities of antipodean emigration that he sent two of his sons, Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson Dickens and Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, to settle in Australia. Both, in their father’s opinion, lacked application and staying power, which would be remedied by a colonial experience.
Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens, the sixth child and fourth son of Charles and Catherine Dickens, was named after the soon-to-be English poet laureate and the French dandy who served as his godfathers.
His fourth son, twenty-year-old Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson Dickens, migrated to Australia in 1865; followed by his tenth and youngest child, sixteen-year-old Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens in 1869. Dr Lansbury sharply observes, “a country where mediocrity would rise triumphant was the ideal place to send two of his more unpromising sons”.
