James Steerforth at the school do, and a friendship begins to develop between the two. As Steerforth is several years older, David looks up to him as a sort of protector. Steerforth is said to be the only boy at the school bold enough to stand up to Mr Creakle, the school's strict headmaster, and to make Mr Creakle feel intimidated. Several years later, after moving to London, David encounters Steerforth, and the two resume their friendship. Steerforth takes David to his home in Highgate and introduces him to his mother, Mrs Steerforth, and her companion, Miss Rosa Dartle, an eccentric young
James Dickens James Dickens James McCulloch York Dickens OBE (4 April 1931 – 5 April 2013) was a British Labour politician. He was born in a Glasgow tenement on April 4 1931. He attended Shawlands Academy and left aged 14, completing his education later at Newbattle Abbey College and Ruskin and St Catherine’s Colleges, Oxford. Dickens served on Westminster City Council representing Millbank Ward from 1962 to 1965. Having unsuccessfully fought Chelsea in 1964, he was Member of Parliament for the marginal constituency of Lewisham West from 1966 to 1970. He was a member of the Tribune Group of left-wing MPs. His