Male : Novelist (46 books between 1892 & 1942) & Writer of Boys Stories. He also wrote 13 stories as Weatherby Chesney between 1898 & 1908. Married Elsie Haggas in 1897. Travelled in Mexico, Lapland, Morocco. He lived at Kettlewell-in-Craven, Yorkshire

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Bibury, Gloucestershire

Date of Birth : 1866 Date of Death : 1944 Age : 78

Pseudonyms : Weatherby Chesney. Nicholson West

Education : Bradford GS & Clare College, Cambridge

1889-1890
Beneath Your Very Boots (1889 Digby & Long)
Currie, Curtis & Co, Crammers (1890 Remington)
Four Red Nightcaps (1890 Eden, Remington) (1900 MacQueen - by Weatherby Chesney)

1891-1895
Stimson's Reef (1891 Blackie) - W S Stacey
A Matrimonial Mixture (1891 Ward & Downey) - 3 vols
The Captured Cruiser, or Two Years from Land (1892 Blackie) - Frank Brangwyn
Sandy Carmichael (1892 Sampson Low)
The New Eden (1892 Longmans)
The Recipe for Diamonds (1893 Heinemann)
The Wild Catters (1895 Sunday School Union)
Honour of Thieves (1895 Chatto & Windus) (1902 Pearson as "The Little Red Captain")

1896-1900
The Stronger Hand (1896 Tower) - ss
The Paradise Coal-Boat (1897 Bowden) - ss
Adventures of Captain Kettle (1898 C A Pearson)
Through Arctic Lapland (1898 A & C Black)
The Adventures of an Engineer (1898 Bowden) - ss. By Weatherby Chesney
The Adventures of a Solicitor (1898 Bowden) - ss. By Weatherby Chesney
The Adventures of Weatherby Chesney (1898 James Bowden, London) - George Hutchinson
The Dilemma of Commander Brett (1899 Bowden) - By Weatherby Chesney
Further Adventures of Captain Kettle (1899 Pearson) - Stanley L Wood
(in US as "A Master of Fortune 1901 Dillingham)
The Lost Continent (1900 Hutchinson)
(Ed) For Britain's Soldiers (1900 Methuen)
The Filibusters (1900 Hutchinson)

1901-1905
Prince Rupert the Buccaneer (1901 Methuen)
John Topp, Pirate (1901 Methuen) - By Weatherby Chesney
The Foundered Galleon (1902 Methuen) - By Weatherby Chesney
The Derelict (1901 Lewis, Scribner US) (in UK as "Mr Horrocks, Purser" 1902 Methuen)
The Fate of Captain Petton (1902 Everett) - By Weatherby Chesney
The Branded Prince (1902 Methuen 6/-) - By Weatherby Chesney
Thompson's Progress (1902 Grant Richards)
The Baptist Ring (1903 Methuen) - By Weatherby Chesney
Captain Kettle KCB (1903 Pearson)
McTodd (1903 Macmillan)
The Tragedy of the Great Emerald (1904 Methuen) - By Weatherby Chesney
The Mystery of a Bungalow (1904 Methuen) - By Weatherby Chesney
Gold Island (1904 Cassell) - By Nicholson West
Atoms of Empire (1904 Macmillan)

1906-1910
Kate Meredith, Financier (1906 Authors & Newspapers Assoc US) (1907 Cassell as "Kate Meredith")
The Trials of Commander McTurk (1906 Murray)
The Mysterious Millionaire (1906 Greening) - By Nicholson West
The Cable Man (1907 Chatto & Windus) - By Weatherby Chesney
The Romance of a Queen (1908 Chatto & Windus) - By Weatherby Chesney
The Claimant (1908 Chatto & Windus) - By Weatherby Chesney
Empire of the World (1910 Everett)

1911-1930
The Escape Agents (1911 Laurie) - ss
The Marriage of Kettle (1912 Heinemann) (1912 Bobbs Merrill)
Firemen Hot (1914 Methuen) - ss
Captain Kettle on the War-Path (1916 Methuen)
Captain Kettle's Bit (1918 Hodder & Stoughton)
Red Herrings (1918 Methuen) - ss
President Kettle (1920 Nash & Grayson)
Admiral Teach (1920 Methuen)
The Rev Captain Kettle (1925 Harrap)
Ben Watson (1926 Country Life) - Gilbert Holiday
President Kettle (1929 Eveleigh Nash & Grayson)
Abbs, His Story Through Many Ages (1929 Hutchinson)
Captain Kettle (1929 Newnes) - Omnibus
People and Places (1930 Newnes)

After 1931
Mr Kettle, Third Mate (1931 Ward Lock)
But Britons are Slaves : Essays (1931 Desmond Harmsworth)
Captain Kettle, Ambassador (1932 Ward, Lock)
West Highland Spirits (1932 Ward Lock)
Man's Understanding (1933 Ward Lock) - ss
Absent Friends (1933 Ward Lock) - ss
My Joyful Life (1935 Hutchinson) - Autobiography
Don't You Agree : Essays (1936 Hutchinson)
Ivory Valley : An Adventure of Captain Kettle (1938 Ward Lock)
Wishing Smith (1939 Robert Hale)
Steamboatmen (1943 Penguin)