11 Facts About Henry Kingsley

Henry Kingsley was an English novelist, brother of the better-known Charles Kingsley.

Henry Kingsley was an early exponent of muscular Christianity in his 1859 novel The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn.

Charles Henry Kingsley came of a long line of clergymen and soldiers.

Henry Kingsley's boyhood was spent at Clovelly and Chelsea, before attending King's College School, King's College London, and Worcester College, Oxford, which he left without graduating.

Henry Kingsley arrived in Melbourne in the Gauntlet in December 1853 with Henry Venables.

Henry Kingsley became involved in gold-digging, and later joined the mounted police.

For some time Henry Kingsley had little or no money and carried his swag from station to station.

Miss Rose Browne, daughter of "Rolf Boldrewood", stated it was on her father's suggestion that Henry Kingsley began to write.

On his return to the UK in 1857, Henry Kingsley devoted himself to literature, and wrote several well-regarded novels, including Geoffry Hamlyn, set in Colebrooke, Devon, and Australia, which the late 19th-century English author George Gissing called "unliterary stuff", The Hillyars and the Burtons, Ravenshoe and Austin Elliot.

Henry Kingsley married Sarah Maria Haselwood on 19 July 1864.

Henry Kingsley published Leighton Court, Mademoiselle Mathilde, Tales of Old Travel Re-narrated, Stretton, The Boy in Grey, Hetty and other Stories, Old Margaret, Hornby Mills and other Stories, Valentine, The Harveys, Oakshott Castle, Reginald Hetherege, Number Seventeen, The Grange Garden, Fireside Studies, and The Mystery of the Island.