Gilbert parker biography

English novelist and politician, born at Camden East, Addington, ON, on the 23rd of November 1862, the son of Captain J.

Parker, R.A. He was educated at Ottawa and at Trinity University, Toronto. In 1886 he went to Australia, and became for a while associate editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. He also travelled extensively in the Pacific, and subsequently in northern Canada; and in the early ’nineties he began to make a growing reputation in London as a writer of romantic fiction.

Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain Joseph Parker, RA.

Sir Gilbert Parker, Baronet was a British novelist of popular adventure and historical romances.

Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC, known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain Joseph Parker, R.A.

Sir Gilbert Parker--the popular Canadian novelist, short-story writer and poet who rose from backwoods obscurity to the seats of the mighty in the British.

Sir Gilbert Parker, PC and 1st Baronet, was a Canadian poet and novelist who also made a name for himself in British politics and as a skilled propagandist.

The best of his novels are those in which he first took for his subject the history and life of the French-Canadians; and his permanent literary reputation rests on the fine quality, descriptive and dramatic, of his Canadian stories.

Pierre and his People (1892) was followed by Mrs. Falchion (1893), The Trail of the Sword (1894), When Valmond came to Pontiac (1895), An Adventurer of the North (1895), and The Seats of the Mighty (1896, dramatized in