11 Facts About Edward Dickens

Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens was the youngest son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine.

Edward Dickens emigrated to Australia at the age of 16, and eventually entered politics, serving as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1889 to 1894.

Edward Dickens attended lectures at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

Charles Dickens encouraged Edward, along with his elder brother Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens, to migrate to Australia, which he saw as a land of opportunity.

Edward Dickens settled at Wilcannia, New South Wales, where he became manager of Mount Murchison Station.

Edward Dickens married Constance Desailly, the daughter of a local property owner, in 1880.

Edward Dickens opened a stock and station agency, was elected as an alderman of Bourke Shire Council and bought a share in Yanda station near Bourke.

Edward Dickens lost heavily from bad seasons and in 1886 was appointed government inspector of runs in the Bourke District.

Edward Dickens was then elected member for Wilcannia in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1889 and held the seat until he was defeated by Labor Party candidate Richard Sleath in 1894.

Edward Dickens then became a rabbit inspector for the Government of New South Wales, then an officer for the Lands Department in charge of the Moree district.

Edward Dickens died in Moree in 1902, and was buried in Moree Cemetery.