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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
Walter Savage Landor Dickens. (8 February 1841 31 December 1863) The fourth child of Charles and Catherine Dickens was named after Dickens' friend, the author Walter Savage Landor. He was nicknamed "Young Skull" by his father and showed an aptitude for writing from an early age.
31 de dic. de 2019 · 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 a long letter to Angela Burdett Coutts (12 February 1864).
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
1775–1864. Culture Club / Getty. As a poet, Walter Savage Landor was best known for his classic epigrams and idylls. He was a seriously emulative classicist and wrote a significant proportion of his poetry in Latin, which was also the original language of some of the long and short poems that he published in English.
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. He left Oxford without a degree after being involved in a fracas.
Walter Savage Landor Dickens, two years younger than his closest sibling, Katey, was the fourth child and second son of Charles and Catherine 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.
