Blackmore Richard Doddridge

Blackmore, Richard Doddridge, novelist, was born in 1825 at Longworth, Berkshire. Educated at Tiverton school and Exeter College, Oxford, he graduated B.A. in 1847. In 1852 he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple. Amongst his novels the best known, Lorna Doone: a Romance of Exmoor, was published in 1869. He has also published some poems and a translation of Virgil's Georgics.