Mary Hogarth Dickens' first child was named Mary in her memory. Hogarth was the daughter of George Hogarth (1783–1870), a music critic, cellist and composer, and Georgina Hogarth Thompson (1793–1863). She was born in Edinburgh, where her father was a legal advisor to Walter Scott, whom the young Charles Dickens greatly admired. She was the fourth of ten children, and the third daughter. Hogarth was named after her paternal grandmother. The name Mary Scott had previously been given to George and Georgina's third child, born 1817 or 1818, who was an infant when she died. Mary and her sister Catherine first met
Catherine Manning much fun reading Lady Catherine Manning's mysteries." She is the wife of Sir David Manning, the former British ambassador to the United States. She met her future husband when they were both history students at the University of Oxford, "I think we met at a lecture." After a few years, they found out that they were unable to have children. Catherine Manning Lady Catherine Manning is a British writer, who has written five mystery novels under the pseudonym Elizabeth Ironside. Catherine Manning is the daughter of a general practitioner doctor, and grew up in a Northamptonshire village. She was educated