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

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