R. D. Blackmore

R. D. Blackmore
Born	Richard Doddridge Blackmore 7 June 1825 Longworth, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), England
Died	20 January 1900(1900-01-20) (aged 74) Teddington, Middlesex, England
Occupation	novelist, horticulturist
Literary movement	Romantic
Notable works	Lorna Doone

Richard Doddridge Blackmore (7 June 1825 – 20 January 1900), known as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. He won acclaim for vivid descriptions and personification of the countryside, sharing with Thomas Hardy a Western England background and a strong sense of regional setting in his works.^[1]

Blackmore, often referred to as the "Last Victorian", was a pioneer of the movement in fiction that continued with Robert Louis Stevenson and others. He has been described as "proud, shy, reticent, strong-willed, sweet-tempered, and self-centred." Apart from his novel Lorna Doone, which has enjoyed continuing popularity, his work has gone out of print.^{[citation needed]}

He was also a barrister, as per his census entry for 1881 in the National Census of England and Wales, at the age of 55, with his residence listed in Teddington, Middlesex.