Lecturer. He received notoriety as a lecturer on the life and work of his father and noted Victorian author, Charles Dickens. He was the sixth child and fourth son of Dickens and his wife Catherine Hogarth. He was born at 1 Devonshire Terrace, on the South side of Regent's Park, and was named after his godfathers, Lord Tennyson and Count D'Orsay. Along with his brothers Frank and Henry, he was educated at a private boarding school for boys in Boulogne in northern France, staying there ten months out of the year. He contemplated a career in the army, medicine, or business but failed in admission examinations in all. Instead, when he was twenty in 1865, he emigrated to Australia and irresponsibly left an outstanding monetary debt for his father to pay. From this point, he was no longer close to his family. In 1968 his father sent his youngest brother Edward to join him in Australia. After his father's death in 1870, he used his inheritance to buy the Wangagong Sheep Station, near Forbes. In 1874, he moved to Hamilton, Victoria for a position as a station agent. In 1875 in a large formal wedding, he married Augusta Jessie Devlin, who was known as “The Belle of Melbourne", and the couple had three daughters, Katherine Mary, Violet, and baby Jessie, who died at age two. Unfortunately, in 1879 his wife, Jessie, died along with baby Jessie in a carriage accident. At this point, he left Hamilton and moved to Melbourne in hope of going into business with his brother. It was where he married in 1888 a young lady named Emily Rile y, who was 17 years his junior. No children were born to this unhappy union. When the financial depression began in the 1890s, he began touring Australia lecturing on his father. He remained in Australia until 1905, after which he gave lectures on his father's life and work, while touring Europe and the United States. While on the European tour, he returned to England for the first time since 1865. While on his last tour in the United States, which was done in celebration of his father's 100 th birthday, he became ill suddenly and died from “acute indigestion,” that may have been actually a coronary. After dying in the Astor Hotel in New York City, his family in England were notified, and then he was buried in a donated plot in New York. His grave was marked in 1935 with a permanent headstone of Vermont granite with donations from a school. His name appears, along with those of his nine siblings, on the monument next to his mother's grave in Highgate Cemetery, North London.