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Walter Savage Landor Dickens (8 February 1841 – 31 December 1863) was the fourth child and second son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. He became an officer cadet in the East India Company 's Presidency armies just before the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
- 31 December 1863 (aged 22), Calcutta
- Walter Savage Landor Dickens, 8 February 1841, St Marylebone
- Indian Army officer
31 de dez. de 2019 · Looking for Walter Landor Dickens. By Dickens Society Blog. December 31, 2019. 1 Comment. Contributed by Christian Lehmann, Bard High School, Early College. On his 52 birthday (7 February, 1864) Charles Dickens received word that his son, Walter Landor, had died in India on 31 December 1863. A few days ...
Landor greatly admired Dickens's works, and was especially moved by the character of Nell Trent (from The Old Curiosity Shop). Landor was affectionately adapted by Dickens as Lawrence Boythorn in Bleak House. He was the godfather of Dickens's son Walter Landor Dickens.
- 30 January 1775
- Trinity College, Oxford (no degree)
- 17 September 1864 (aged 89)
- Romanticism
Walter Savage Landor Dickens. (1841-1863) served as a cadet in the East India Company, became a lieutenant in the 42nd Highlanders (The Black Watch), and died in Calcutta of an aneurism. 5. Francis Jeffrey Dickens.
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) was another of those eminent Victorians whom Dickens attempted to absorb into his family's orbit by naming one of his children after him. A fervid supporter of liberal causes such as Giuseppe Garibaldi's campaigns for the reunification of Italy, Landor was imbued with the young Dickens's passion for liberal and ...
Contributed by Christian Lehmann, Bard High School, Early College On his 52 birthday (7 February, 1864) Charles Dickens received word that his son, Walter Landor, had died in India on 31 December 1863. A few days later Dickens described the circumstances of Walter’s death in...
Walter Savage Landor was born at Warwick in 1775. As a writer he was highly regarded by a few, but was known to most of his contemporaries as a ‘character’: an impetuous and headstrong man (caricatured as Boythorn by Dickens in Bleak House ) holding in his youth extreme radical views.
