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HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL (1841-1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 728 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:CLARENCE See also:KENDALL (1841-1882)  , Australian poet, son of a missionary, was See also:born in New See also:South See also:Wales on the 18th of See also:April 1841 . He received only a slight See also:education, and in 186o he entered a lawyer's See also:office in See also:Sydney . He had always had See also:literary tastes, and sent some of his verses in 1862 to See also:London to be published in the See also:Athenaeum . Next See also:year he obtained a clerkship in the Lands See also:Department at Sydney, being afterwards transferred to the Colonial Secretary's office; and he combined this See also:work with the See also:writing of See also:poetry and with journalism . His See also:principal volumes of See also:verse were Leaves from an Australian See also:Forest (1869) and Songs from the Mountains (188o), his feeling for nature, as embodied in Australian landscape and See also:bush-See also:life, being very true and full of See also:charm . In 1869 he resigned his See also:post in the public service, and for some little while was in business with his See also:brothers . See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Parkes took an See also:interest in him, and eventually appointed him to an inspectorship of forests . He died on the 1st of See also:August 1882 . In 1886 a memorial edition of his poems was published at See also:Melbourne .

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