Harry Lloyd a great-great-great-grandson of Victorian writer Charles Dickens through his mother, who is the daughter of Captain Peter Dickens, RN. One of his maternal great-grandfathers was Rear-Admiral Henry Blagrove. He is a cousin of biographer and writer Lucinda Hawksley, and actor and performer Gerald Dickens. Lloyd was educated at Eton College and, while there, made his television debut at the age of 16 as James Steerforth in the BBC's 1999 adaptation of "David Copperfield" opposite Daniel Radcliffe. In 2002, he was cast as young Rivers in "Goodbye Mr Chips". He went on to study English at Christ Church, Oxford, where he
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