Zomer 2005 no. 53
The Dutch Dickensian Volume XXV
Education
Mr King's School, St John's Wood 1844-9
(interruptions while abroad King's College
School): Eton 1850-2 Leipzig 1853-5
Governesses and Tutors (English and French):
"Polished" in Paris - learnt Italian. Good at Music
Dancing
Governesses Tutors: "Polished" in Paris. Bedford
ladies' College (Art); 1 year (1852) (also taught by
Millais)
Career
Baring's Bank 1855 Two independent businesses:
Bankrupt 1868. Staff of AYR - owned and edited
after father's death: wrote/lectured on CD
Helped keep house for CD. Devoted Daughter. Very
good amateur actress. Helped Georgina edit D's
letters
Painted (exhibited RA 1877) Married to artists
Helped with editing
Mr King's (1847-52), Trimmer's (military) (1852-
4), Brackenbury Wynne's (Wimbledon) (1854-7)
East India Co as Cadet (1875). Rapid promotion.
Lieutenant - 1858 (service in Indian mutiny).
Promising career
Gibson Brewer's School (Boulogne) 1851-8,
Hamburg (1858-60). Reading for Bar (1861):
Stammer started 1851 (death John D? Baby Dora.
School?)
Unhappy periods in commerce AYR offices.
Failed entry to foreign office. Joined Bengal police
(1863-71). Blank to 1874. RCMP 'Inspector
Dickens". Only son with books about him.
Boulogne (as above, 1853-9), Wimbledon (1859-
62), trained for army but failed entry for Woolwich.
Two years in a London office Emigrated Australia
(1865) farming business successes, but some
problems. Returned England 1910, wrote on
father. Died in NY on lecture tour (heart attack).
Boulogne (as above, 1855-9), Southsea (Rev
Ashton Burrow's Naval School, 1859-60)
preparatory to going into Navy
Naval cadet promoted 1867 Lieutenant. Naval
success. Offended family*.Buried at sea on way
back to England.
^Exaggerated/ on 2 November 1867, Sydney
rushed up from his arrival in Portsmouth to CD's
USA-trip farewell dinner; and CD got him in tho'
sell out.
Boulogne (1858-60) Rochester Grammar School
(1860-61) Wimbledon (1861-68). Scholarship to
trinity Hall, Cambridge (1868-72) called to Bar
1873
Became K.C, judge/common sergeant at Old
Bailey): Knighted 1922. (Most successful son.)
Rochester Grammar (1860-61 Wimbledon (1861-
63), Cambridge Hose School, Tumbridge Wells
(1864-7), Cirencester (Royal) agricultural College
(1868)
Note: all were educated at home (by Georgina
Hogarth, father, siblings tutors) before and while
going to school
Emigrated to Australia, September 1868, to join
Alfred. MP in South Wales. Never really successful.
CD wrote for him them "A Child's History of
England" and "A Child's New Testament" "The
Life of our Lord"]
