R. D. Blackmore

R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900), English novelist, best known for the historical adventure Lorna Doone. Richard Doddridge Blackmore was born on June 7, 1825, in Longworth, Berkshire, and educated at the University of Oxford. He wrote several volumes of poetry before the publication of his first novel, Clara Vaughan (1864). His reputation was established with Lorna Doone (1869), a historical romance with a 17th-century setting. Among Blackmore's other writings are the novels Cradock Nowell (1866), Alice Lorraine (1875), Springhaven (1887), and Dariel (1897). He died on January 20, 1900, in Teddington.