John David Hennessey (1847 – 31 July 1935), also known as Rev. J. D. Hennessey and David Hennessey, journalist and author, was born in London and went to Australia in 1875. He lived in

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and Victoria. Hennessey was a

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and Congregational minister and preached at the Wharf street Congregational Church in

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and the Pitt street Congregational Church in

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. He founded the '' Australian Christian World'' in 1886 and edited it until 1891. In 1894 he edited the '' Australian Field'', a weekly agricultural paper. Hennessey retired from journalism when he was about seventy years old, however he continued his literary work until shortly before his death, which occurred after a brief illness. He was buried at the

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Cemetery. As well as short stories in magazines in Australia and England, Hennessey published several novels. One, '' The Outlaw'', was awarded second prize of £400 in a £1,000 novel competition. Hennessey kept a diary on his voyage from England to Australia on the ship ''Lammermuir'' and it is now held in the

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Bibliography

* ''The Dis-Honourable'' (1895) * ''An Australian Bush Track'' ('The Bush Track: A Story of the Australian Bush') (1896) * ''Wynnum'' ('Wynnum White's Wickedness') (1896) * ''A Lost Identity'' ('The Bells of Sydney'; 'Gunnery of Church-Conset') (1897) * ''The New Chum Farmer'' (1897) * ''The Outlaw'' (1913) * ''A Tail of Gold'' (1914) * ''The Caves of Shend'' (1915) * ''The Cords of Vanity'' (1920)

External links

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References

* ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'', second edition, 1994,

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. * ''Australian Literature a Bibliography to 1938 Extended to 1950'' (Angus and Robertson, 1956), page 228, by Miller and Macartney.
''The Argus'', Melbourne, Friday 2 August 1935.
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