About Silas K. Hocking
Lived 1850 – 1935 (aged 85). Silas K. Hocking was a novelist.
Silas Kitto Hocking (24 March 1850 – 15 September 1935) was a Cornish novelist and Methodist preacher. He is known for his novel for youth called Her Benny, which was a best-seller.
Biography
Hocking was born at St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, to James Hocking, part owner of a tin mine, and his wife Elizabeth, née Kitto. in 1878. It was, however, with his second novel that he won great fame; Her Benny (1879), a story of the street children of Liverpool. Silas Hocking is buried in St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, along with his son, who died of Spanish flu in 1919, and his wife.
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Who was Silas K. Hocking?
English writer, preacher, journalist (1850–1935)
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Silas K. Hocking was born on 24 March 1850.
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Silas K. Hocking died on 15 September 1935.
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Silas K. Hocking was a novelist.
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