He subsequently had difficulty finding employment and died after several months' illness in Moree, in debt and childless. Dickens then became a rabbit inspector for the Government of New South Wales and was afterwards an officer for the Lands Department in charge of the Moree district. He was never able to pay back a loan of ₤800 from his most successful brother, Henry.ĭickens was elected as the member for Wilcannia in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1889 and held the seat until defeated by the Labor Party candidate, Richard Sleath in 1894. He lost heavily from bad seasons and in 1886 he was appointed government inspector of runs in the Bourke District. He opened a stock and station agency, was elected as an alderman of Bourke Shire Council and bought a share in Yanda station near Bourke. He married Constance Desailly, the daughter of a local property-owner, in 1880. Edward Dickens settled at Wilcannia, New South Wales where he became manager of Momba station. Alfred migrated in 1865 and Edward in 1869.
He also attended lectures at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.Ĭharles 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. C Sawyer, later Anglican bishop of Armidale and Grafton. Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens was the youngest son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine and was an Australian politician.Įdward 'Plorn' Dickens was clearly named after Edward Bulwer-Lytton - nowadays much satirised for the famous opening line of his 1830 novel Paul Clifford, "It was a dark and stormy night" - and educated at Tunbridge Wells in Kent at a private school owned by the Reverend W.
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