Crosbie Garstin

Crosbie Garstin
Born
Crosbie Albert Norman Garstin

7 May 1887
Newlyn, Cornwall, UK
Disappeared19 April 1930 (aged 42)
Salcombe, Devon, UK
StatusMissing for 94 years, 6 months and 18 days
NationalityBritish
WorksPenhale trilogy
SpouseLilian Barkworth

Crosbie Garstin (7 May 1887 – 19 April 1930) was a poet, best-selling novelist and the eldest son of the Newlyn School painter Norman Garstin.[1] He is said[by whom?] to have been "'untameable as a child", and to have "died in mysterious circumstances" after a boating accident in the Salcombe estuary. He is known for the Penhale trilogy of novels based in 18th-century Cornwall.

  1. ^ Nebesnuick, Sue (2010). Walker, Dawn (ed.). Homes & Households in West Cornwall 1550–1950 – Wellington Place and Wellington Terrace: a Regency Row in Penzance. Penzance: Penwith Local History Group. pp. 31–40. ISBN 978-09540249-5-6.