WILLIAM-HENRY GILES KINGSTON
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An English novelist; born in London, Feb. 28, 1814; died near there, August 5, 1880. He wrote almost though not quite exclusively for boys, producing 130 stories in 30 years; mostly of sea voyage and adventure, instructive as well as pleasing, and very popular. "Peter the Whaler" (1851), "The Cruise of the Frolic" (1860), the series beginning with "The Three Midshipmen" (1873), "Joviman" (1877), etc., won swarms of readers, both young and old. His articles on Portugal, where his father was a merchant at Oporto, led to the commercial treaty between Portugal and England in 1842.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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