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Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens (18 April 1847 – 2 May 1872) was a Royal Navy officer, the fifth son and seventh child of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. [1] Biography.
6 feb 2022 · On 24 June 1847 at the church of St Mary in Marylebone in London, his seventh child was christened Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens. Why did Dickens choose to name his son after the philosopher Rev. Sydney Smith (1771-1845)? (The Haldimand bit of Sydney’s name referred to someone else.)
When Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens was born on 18 April 1847, in London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Charles John Huffam Dickens, was 35 and his mother, Catherine Thomson Hogarth, was 31. He lived in St Marylebone, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1851.
Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens, the seventh child and fifth son of Charles and Catherine Dickens, was named after a member of the Haldimand family noted for his charitable works, William Haldimand (1764-1862).
Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens (18 April 1847 – 2 May 1872) The seventh child of Charles Dickens was a Royal Navy officer, but he too did not amount to much. Despite being one of Dickens' favorite children, his father sent him to boarding school in France at an early age with his older brothers Alfred and Harry.
11 set 2018 · Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens was a Royal Navy officer; the fifth son and seventh child of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine.
He was the smallest of all the nine surviving children ; even as an adult, he was only just over five feet tall. His childhood nickname, "Ocean Spectre," came, as Dickens's biographer John Forster wrote, "from a strange little weird yet most attractive look in his large wondering eyes."
