KINGSLEY, HENRY

born Jan. 2, 1830, Barnack, Northamptonshire, Eng. died May 24, 1876, Cuckfield, Sussex English novelist whose books were popular for half a century and who is best known for Ravenshoe (1861) and The Hillyars and the Burtons (1865). After leaving Oxford University, he set out for the Australian goldfields but was unsuccessful and returned to England after five years to write The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn (1859), a novel of Australian life. He edited the Edinburgh Review for a time and was its war correspondent during the Franco-German War of 187071.