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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.
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6 de feb. de 2022 · 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.) Quite simply, because Sydney was a good friend and correspondent.
11 de sept. de 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.
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." Perhaps appropriately, he joined the Royal Navy and reached the rank of Lieutenant.
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.
