page_title: Edward Dickens
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Dickens / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Momba House at Momba Station
context_page_description: Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens was the youngest son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. He emigrated to Australia at the age of 16, and eventually entered politics, serving as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1889 to 1894. He died in poverty at the age of 49.
context_section_description: Nicknamed "Plorn", Dickens was named after novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton and educated at Tunbridge Wells in Kent at a private school owned by the Reverend W. C Sawyer, later Anglican bishop of Armidale and Grafton.  He also attended lectures at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
caption: Momba House at Momba Station c. 1870
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