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Born | Thomas Henry Lister 1800 |
Died | 5 June 1842 London, England | (aged 41–42)
Occupation | Registrar General |
Nationality | British |
Genre | Novelist |
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Thomas Henry Lister (1800 – 5 June 1842) was an English novelist and biographer, and served as Registrar General in the British civil service. He was an early exponent of the silver fork novel as a genre and also presaged "futuristic" writing in one of his stories.