HENRY KINGSLEY (183o-1876)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V15,
Page 818
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also: - HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
English novelist, younger brother of Charles Kingsley, was born at Barnack, Northampton- shire, on the 2nd of January 1830
.
In 1853 he left See also: - OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
, where he was an undergraduate at Worcester College, for the Australian goldfields
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This venture, however, was not a success, and after five years he returned to England
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He achieved considerable popularity with his Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn (1859), a novel of Australian life
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This was the first of a series of novels of which Ravenshoe (1861) and The Hillyars and The Burtons (1865) are the best known
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These stories are characterized by much vigour, abundance of incident, and healthy sentiment
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He edited for eighteen months the Edinburgh Daily Review, for which he had acted as war correspondent during the Franco- German War
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He died at Cuckfield, Sussex, on the 24th of May 1876
.
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