Cambridge Daily News 17 Nov 1902: death of G A Henty

Young England will learn with regret the death of Mr G.A. Henty. He was a soldier, miner & war correspondent but it was as a novelist that he will go down to posterity. He was born at Trumpington and went to Caius College, Cambridge, but before he could take his degree an opportunity occurred which was irresistible to a young man of his adventurous temperament. The Crimean War broke out and he received an appointment in the Purveyor’s Department of the Army. His stories for boys numbered considerably over eighty and he sometimes produced a book in three weeks.