More Dickens

My blip on 4 April was about the two sons Charles Dickens packed off to Australia to seek their fortunes.

The elder of the two was Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens. (The unfortunate child was named after his godfathers.) Alfred arrived in Australia in 1865 and lived here for 40 years. For several of those years he managed a 50,000 acre sheep station in the far west of New South Wales.

Rather ironically in the present circumstances, the station was called Corona Station.