Henry Kingsley

Henry Kingsley (January 2, 1830 – May 24, 1876) was an English novelist, brother of the better known Charles Kingsley.

He was born at Barnack, Northamptonshire and educated at King's College London, and Oxford, which he left without graduating. He emigrated to Australia, arriving at Melbourne in the Gauntlet in December 1853. He became involved in gold-digging, and later joined the mounted police.

On his return to the UK in 1858 he devoted himself to literature, and wrote several well-regarded novels, including Geoffrey Hamlyn (1859), set in Colebrooke, Devon,and Australia, The Hillyars and the Burtons (1865), Ravenshoe (1861), and Austin Elliot (1863). Ravenshoe is generally regarded as the best. In 1869, he went to Edinburgh to edit the Daily Review, but he soon gave this up, and became war correspondent for the paper during the Franco-German War.

He died of cancer of the tongue after living the last few years of his life at Cuckfield Sussex.

External link

• Works by Henry Kingsley at Project Gutenberg

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.