DEATH OF G.A. HENTY.
(Received 9.27 a.m.)
LONDON, November 17,
The death is announced of Mr. George A. Henty, the novelist and writer of boys' books, aged 70 years.
[The late Mr G. A. Henty was the author of .many books of adventure, and in the course of his life wrote no less than seventy books for boys. He was born at Cambridge in 1532, and when a young man went out to the Crimea in the Purveyor's Department of the Army. At the end of the war he was in charge of the Belfast and afterwards of the Portsmouth districts as Purveyor. In 1866 he became the special correspondent of the London "Standard," and was through the Austro-Italian. l_Vanco-Gern_an and Turi co-Servian wars, and the Abyssinian and Ashahti expeditions, and was with Garibaldi in the Tyrol. Amongst his principal works are "The March to Magdala," "The March to Coomassie." "A Woman of the Commune," "A Search for a Secret," "All but Lost," "Gabriel Allen," "A Hidden Foe," etc.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 274, 18 November 1902, Page 5
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