OBITUARY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22670, 6 March 1937, Page 15

OBITUARY

MR. JOSEPH HOCKING (Received March 5, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 4 The death has occurred of the rioted British novelist Mr. Joseph Hocking. | Mr. Hocking was born at St. Stephen's, Cornwall, in November, 1860, and was educated at Victoria University, Manchester. He began his varied career by becoming i surveyor in 1878 and he continued in this work j until 1884, when he entered the Non- I conformist ministry. He retired in I 1910. Mr. Hocking had travelled ii> | many countries, among them Egypt, . Palestine, Turkey and Greece. His i elder brother, Mr. Silas Hocking, had a similar upbringing and was ordained a Free Church minister in 1870, resigning in 189 G. Thoy were both prolific writers of widely-read novels with ti distinct religious note. Among the books of Mr. Joseph Hocking are "Jabez Easterbrook" (1891), "Zillah" (1892), "The Scarlet Woman" (1599), "Tommy and the Maid of Athens" (1917), and "The Pomp of Yesterday" (1918). He continued writing up to his death and his more recent novels include "The Man Who Found Out" (1933), "The Squire of Zabuloc" (1935), "Davy's Ambition" (1936) and "Deep Calleth Deep" (1936).