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HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 340 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT  [" Frank Forester "1 (1807-1858),
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English novelist and writer on sport, son of the Hon. and Rev . William Herbert, dean of Manchester, a son of the first
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earl of Carnarvon, was born in
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London on the 3rd of
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April 1807 . He was educated at
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Eton and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1830 . Having become involved in debt, he emigrated to
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America, and from 1831 to 1839 was teacher of Greek in a private school in New York . In 1833 he started the
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American Monthly
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Magazine, which he edited, in conjunction with A . D . Patterson, till 1835 . In 1834 he published his first novel, The Brothers: a Tale of the
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Fronde, which was followed by a number of others which obtained a certain degree of popularity . He also wrote a series of
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historical studies, including The Cavaliers of England (1852), The Knights of England, France and Scotland (1852), The Chevaliers of France (1853), and The Captains of the Old
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World (1851); but he is best known for his
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works on sport, published under the pseudonym of " Frank Forester." These include The Field Sports of the
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United States and
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British Provinces (1849), Frank Forester and his Friends (1849), The Fish and Fishing of the United States (1850), The Young Sportsman's
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Complete
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Manual (1852), and The Horse and
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Horsemanship in the United States and British Provinces of North America (1858) . He also translated many of the novels of
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Eugene Sue and Alexandre Dumas . Herbert was a man of varied accomplishments, but of somewhat dissipated habits . He died by his own hand in New York on the 17th of May 1858 .

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