Charles Dickens, Jr.

Charles Dickens, Jr.
Charles Dickens, Jr. in 1874.
Born	Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (1837-01-06)6 January 1837 Furnival's Inn, Holborn, London.
Died	20 June 1896(1896-06-20) (aged 59) Fulham, London.
Resting place	Mortlake cemetery, London.
Occupation	Writer, Editor
Nationality	English
Notable works	The Life of Charles James Mathews Dickens's Dictionary of London Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames Dickens's Dictionary of Paris John Jasper's Secret: Sequel to Charles Dickens' Mystery of Edwin Drood (with Wilkie Collins)
Spouse	Elisabeth Matilda Moule Evans
Children	Mary Angela Dickens Ethel Kate Dickens Charles Walter Dickens Sydney Margaret Dickens Dorothy Gertrude Dickens Beatrice Dickens Cecil Mary Dickens Evelyn Bessie Dickens
Relatives	Charles Dickens (father) Catherine Hogarth (mother)

Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (6 January 1837 – 20 July 1896) was the first child of the English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. A failed businessman, he became the editor of his father's magazine All the Year Round, and a successful writer of dictionaries. He is now most remembered for his two 1879 books Dickens's Dictionary of London and Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames.

Charles Dickens was born at Furnival's Inn in Holborn, London, the first child of Charles Dickens and his then-wife Catherine Hogarth. He was called 'Charley' by family and friends. In 1847, aged 10, he entered the junior department of King's College, London. He went to Eton College, and visited Leipzig in 1853 to study German. In 1855, aged 18, he entered Barings Bank. In 1858, after his parents' separation, with his father's agreement, he went to live with his mother.

As a young man, Dickens showed skills that could have led to a career in journalism but his father encouraged him to go into business. With ambitions to become a tea merchant, he visited China, Hong Kong and Japan in 1860.

In 1861, he married Elisabeth Matilda Moule Evans, daughter of Frederick Mullett Evans, his father's former publisher. They had eight children:

In 1866 he was appointed as the first Honorary Secretary of the Metropolitan Regatta. In 1868, after the failure of his printing business, and bankruptcy, he was hired by his father to work at All the Year Round and was appointed sub-editor the following year. In 1870, after his father's death, Dickens, Jr. inherited the magazine and became its editor. At this time he also bought at auction Gads Hill Place, his father's Kent home, but he was forced to give it up in 1879.

In 1879 he published (jointly with his father-in-law) the first editions of his two main dictionaries, Dickens's Dictionary of London and Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames. In 1882 his dictionaries were picked up by Macmillan & Co. who also released his third dictionary, Dickens's Dictionary of Paris, delayed by verifications explained in its introduction.