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Kingsley (HENRY an English novelist)

HENRY, an English novelist; brother of Charles; born in Barnack, Northamptonshire, Jan. 2, 1830. An unsuccessful experiment at gold. mining in Australia gave him the material for his first novel, "The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn" (1859). He followed it with "Ravenshoe" (1861); "Austin Elliot" (1863); "The Hillyars and the Burtons" (1865); "Leighton Court" (1866). The battle of Sedan, at which he was present, formed the subject of "Valentin: A French Boy's Story of Sedan" (1872). He died in Cuckfield, Sussex, May 24, 1876.