Henry Kendall

Henry Kendall was born on 18 April 1839 in Ulladulla, in New South Wales, with a twin brother. He sailed on a whaler from 1855 to 1857, became a clerk to a solicitor in Grafton, then a civil servant in Sydney, a post he left in 1869, in debt, for Melbourne. Returning to Sydney ill and drinking, he was acquitted in 1870 of forgery on grounds of insanity and spent several months of 1873 in the Gladesville asylum. Taken in by the Fagan family, at Gosford, he worked in their timber business, became a forest inspector in 1881 and died of tuberculosis on 1 August 1882 in Surry Hills.

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• PoetryLeaves from Australian ForestsHenry Kendall · 1869LiteraturePublic domain