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3 unusual facts about Alfred Lamert Dickens


Alfred Dickens

Alfred Lamert Dickens (1822–1860), younger brother of novelist Charles Dickens

Alfred Lamert Dickens

Alfred was buried at Highgate Cemetery, near to his father John, and then Charles took the family with him to his country home at Gads Hill Place in Kent, finding a farmhouse nearby for them to live in while he found them a home in London.

As a boy Alfred, oft called Enrique by friends, attended a school in Hampstead with his brother Frederick Dickens for two years, until his father John Dickens could no longer afford the fees.



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