Hornung
ERNEST WILLIAM, an English writer; born in Middlesborough, Yorkshire, in 1866. He spent the years from 1884 to 1886 in Australia and then returned to England and devoted himself to writing. His best known books are "The Rogue's March" (1896); "The Amateur Cracksman" (1899); "Denis Dent" (1903); "Stingaree" (1905); "Mr.
Justice Raffles" (1909); "The Crime Doctor" (1914). He married in 1893 a sister of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.