Male : Writer of boy's adventure stories. Blackie printed 3.5 million of his titles. Married Elizabeth Finucane in 1857 (d.1965) & Elizabeth Keylock (c1889). He edited the 'Union Jack' 1880-3 and 'Beeton's Boys' Own Magazine' 1888-90. He died on board his yacht moored in Weymouth harbour

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Trumpington, Nr Cambridge

Date of Birth : 1832 Date of Death : 1902 Age : 69

Other Work : War Correspondent in the Crimean and Franco-Prussian wars

Education : Westminster School & Caius College, Cambridge

1867-1870
A Search for a Secret (1867 Tinsley Bros) - 3 vols
The March to Magdala (1868 Tinsley Bros)
All But Lost (1869 Tinsley Bros) - 3 vols
[This set sold at auction in 1972 for £720]

1871-1880
Out on the Pampas, or The Young Settlers (1871 Griffith & Farran) - J B Zwecker
The Young Franc-Tireurs (1872 G & F)
The March to Coomassie (1874 Tinsley Bros)
Seaside Maidens (1880 Tinsley Bros)
The Young Buglers (1880 Griffith & Farran) - J Procter

1881-1882
The Cornet of Horse : A tale of Marlborough's Wars (1881 Sampson Low & Marston)
In Times of Peril (1881 Griffith & Farran)
Facing Death, or the Hero of the Vaughan Pit - A Tale of the Coal Mines
(1882 Blackie) - Gordon Browne
Winning His Spurs (1882 Sampson Low & Marston)

1883-1884
Friends Though Divided (1883 G & F)
Jack Archer : A Tale of the Crimea (1883 Sampson Low & Marston) (1884 Roberts, Boston)
All Blackie from here on unless stated
Under Drake's Flag : A Tale of the Spanish Main (1883) - Gordon Browne
By Sheer Pluck : A Tale of the Ashanti War (1884) - Gordon Browne
With Clive in India, or the Beginnings of an Empire (1884) - Gordon Browne

1885-1886
The Young Colonists : A Tale of the Zulu and Boer Wars
(1885 George Routledge) - Simon H Vedder
True to the Old Flag : A Tale of the American War of Independence (1885) - Gordon Browne
In Freedom's Cause : A Story of Wallace and Bruce (1885) - Gordon Browne
St George for England : A Tale of Cressy and Poitiers (1885) - Gordon Browne
The Lion of the North : A Tale of Gustavus Adolphus & the Wars of Religion
(1886) - J Schonberg
The Dragon and the Raven, or the Days of King Alfred (1886) - C J Staniland
For Name and Fame, or Through Afghan Passes to Cabul with Roberts (1886) - Gordon Browne
Through the Fray : A Story of the Luddite Riots (1886) - H M Paget
Yarns on the Beach : A Bundle of Tales (1886)

1887-1888
The Young Carthaginian : A Story of the Times of Hannibal (1887 Scribner & Welford)
(1887) - C J Staniland
The Bravest of the Brave : With Peterborough in Spain (1887) - H M Paget
A Final Reckoning : A Tale of Bush Life in Australia (1887) - W B Wollen
With Wolfe in Canada, or the Winning of a Continent (1887) - Gordon Browne
The Sovereign Reader : Scenes from the Life and Reign of Queen Victoria (1887)
In the Reign of Terror : The Adventures of a Westminster Boy (1888) - J Schonberg
Sturdy and Strong (1888)
Orange and Green : A Tale of the Boyne & Limerick (1888) - Gordon Browne
Bonnie Prince Charlie : A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden (1888) - Gordon Browne
For the Temple : A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem (1888) - S J Solomon
Gabriel Allen MP (1888 Spencer & Blackett)

1889-1890
Captain Bayley's Heir : A Tale of the Gold Fields of California (1889) - H M Paget
The Cat of Bubastes : A Story of Ancient Egypt (1889) - J R Weguelin
The Lion of St Mark : A Tale of Venice in the 14thC (1889) - Gordon Browne
The Curse of Carne's Hold (1889 Spencer & Blackett) - 2 vols - C H M Kerr
The Plague Ship (1889 SCK Penny Library of Fiction)
By Pike and Dyke : A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic (1890) - Maynard Brown
One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo (1890 Scribner) (1890) - W H Overend
Tales of Daring and Danger (1890)
With Lee in Virginia : A Story of the American Civil War (1890 Scribner & Welford)
(1890) - Gordon Browne
(Ed) Stories of Sea and Land (nd. 1890 Ward Lock)

1891-1892
Those Other Animals (1891 Henry & Co) - Harrison Weir
By England's Aid : The Freeing of the Netherlands 1585-1604 (1891) - Alfred Pearse
By Right of Conquest, or with Cortez in Mexico (1890 Scribner & Welford) (1891) - W S Stacey
Maori and Settler : A Story of the New Zealand War (1891) - Alfred Pearse
A Chapter of Adventures, or Through the Bombardment of Alexandria (1891) - W H Overend
A Hidden Foe (1891 Sampson Low & Marston) - 2 vols
Redskin and Cowboy : A Tale of the Western Plains (1891 Scribner) (1892) - Alfred Pearse
The Dash for Khartoum : A Tale of the Nile Expedition (1891 Scribner)
(1892) - J Schonberg & J Nash
Held Fast for England : A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1892) - Gordon Browne
The Ranch in the Valley (1892 SCK Penny Library of Fiction)
Beric the Briton : A Story of the Roman Invasion (1892) (1892 Scribner) - W Parkinson
Condemned as a Nihilist : A Story of Escape from Siberia (1892 Scribner) (1893) - Walter Paget

1893-1894
In Greek Waters : A Story of the Grecian War of Independence 1821-1827 (1893) - W S Stacey
Tales from Henty (1893 )
Rujub the Juggler (1893 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
Through the Sikh War : A Tale of the Conquest of the Punjaub (1893 Scribner) (1894) - Hal Hurst
A Jacobite Exile : Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles XII of Sweden
(1893 Scribner) (1894) - Paul Hardy
A Tale of Waterloo (1894 Worthington & Co, NY)
St Bartholomew's Eve : A Tale of Huguenot Wars (1894) - H J Draper
Dorothy's Double (1894 C & W) - 3 vols
In the Heart of the Rockies : A Story of Adventure in Colorado
(1894 Scribner) (1895) - G C Hindley
When London Burned: A Story of Restoration Times & the Great Fire (1894 Scribner)
(1895) - J Finnemore
Wulf the Saxon : A Story of the Norman Conquest (1894 Scribner) (1895) - Ralph Peacock

1895-1896
A Woman of the Commune (1895 F V White)
Through Russian Snows : A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
(1895 Scribner) (1896) - W H Overend
A Knight of the White Cross : A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes (1896) - Ralph Peacock
Bears and Dacoits (1896)
Surly Joe (1896)
White-Faced Dick (1896)
The Tiger of Mysore: A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib (1896) - W H Margetson
On the Irrawaddy : A Story of the First Burmese War (1896 Scribner) (1897) - W H Overend
At Agincourt : A Tale of the White Hoods of Paris (1896 Scribner) (1897 Blackie) - Wal Paget
With Cochrane the Dauntless: A Tale of the Exploits of Lord Cochrane in South American Waters
(1896 Scribner) (1897) - W H Margetson

1897-1898
The Queen's Cup (1897 C & W) - 3 vols
Among Malay Pirates (1897 Hurst & Co, NY)
A March on London : Being a Tale of Wat Tyler's Insurrection (1897 Scribner)
(1898 Blackie) - W H Margetson
With Moore at Carunna (1898) - Wal Paget
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret (1898 C & W)
With Frederick the Great : A Tale of the Seven Years War (1898) - W Paget
Under Wellington's Command: A Tale of the Peninsula War (1899) (1899 Blackie) - Wal Paget
At Aboukir and Acre : A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt (1898 Scribner NY)
(1899 Blackie) - William Rainey
Both Sides the Border : A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower
(1898 Scribner) (1899 Blackie) - Ralph Peacock

1899-1900
The Lost Heir (1899)
The Golden Canon (1899 Mershon, NY)
On the Spanish Main (1899 Chambers)
A Roving Commission, or Through the Black Insurrection of Haiti (1900) - Wm Rainey
Won by the Sword : A Tale of the Thirty Years' War (1900 Blackie)
No Surrender ! : A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee (1900 Blackie)
Do Your Duty (1900)
Out with Garibaldi : A Story of the Liberation of Italy (1900 Scribner) (1901 Blackie) - Wm Rainey
In the Irish Brigade : A Tale of War in Flanders & Spain (1900 Scribner) (1901) - Charles M Sheldon
With Buller in Natal, or a Born Leader (1900 Scribner) (1901) - Wm Rainey

1901-1902
The Sole Survivors (1901 Chambers)
Courage and Conflict (1901 Chambers) - with George Manville Fenn & others. W Boucher
John Hawke's Fortune (1901 Chapman & Hall)
Queen Victoria (1901)
At the Point of the Bayonet : A Tale of the Mahratta War
(1901 Scribner) (1902 Blackie) - Wal Paget
To Herat and Cabul : A Story of the First Afghan War (1901 Scribner) (1902) - C M Sheldon
With Roberts to Pretoria : A Tale of the South African War (1902) - William Rainey
In the Hands of the Cave Dwellers (1902) - Wat Miller
At Duty's Call (1902 Chambers)
The Treasure of the Incas : A Tale of Adventure in Peru (1902 Scribner) (1903) - Wal Paget
With Kitchener in the Soudan : A Story of Atbara & Omdurman
(1902 Scribner) (1903) - William Rainey

1903-1904
With the British Legion : A Story of the Carlist Wars (1903 Blackie) - Wal Paget
Through Three Campaigns : A Story of Chitral, the Tirah, and Ashanti (1904) - Wal Paget
With the Allies to Pekin : A Story of the Relief of the Legations (1904) - Wal Paget

1905-1906
By Conduct and Courage : A Story of the Days of Nelson (1905) - William Rainey
Gallant Deeds (1905 Chambers)
In the Hands of the Malays (1905)
Among the Bushrangers (1906)
The Young Captain (1906)
The Two Prisoners (1906)
Cast Ashore (1906)
Charlie Marryat (1906)
Cornet Walter (1906)
A Highland Chief (1906)
An Indian Raid (1906)
A Soldier's Daughter (1906)
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"The Life of a Special Correspondent"
(In) The Empire Annual for Boys (nd. RTS)

READING
George Manville Fenn : George Alfred Henty (1907 Blackie)
Robert L Dartt : G A Henty - A Bibliography (1971 Dar-Web Inc, & Sherratt & Hughes)
Peter Newbolt : G A Henty - A Bibliographical Study (1996 Scolar Press)
Hugh Pruen : Henty Companion (Henty Society, Royston, Herts £10)