Henry Kingsley b. 2 January 1830

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Kingsley arrived in Australia in 1853 to try his luck gold-mining. During his travels throughout New South Wales and Victoria he made a number of watercolour sketches and his novel 'The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn' was written while he was staying in Buninyong near the Ballarat goldfields in 1857.