biography
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| lived:
| (1819–75)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Holne, Devon, SW England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, was ordained in 1842, and lived as curate and rector of Eversley, Hampshire. A ‘Christian Socialist’, he was much involved in schemes for the improvement of working-class life, and his social novels, such as Alton Locke (1850), had great influence at the time. His best-known works are Westward Ho! (1855), Hereward the Wake (1866), and his children's book, The Water Babies (1863). In 1860 he was appointed professor of modern history at Cambridge, and in 1873 chaplain to the queen. |
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