Richard Doddridge Blackmore

Richard Doddridge Blackmore was born on 7 June 1825 at Longworth, Berkshire, and died on 20 January 1900 at Teddington. He studied at Exeter College, Oxford, was called to the Bar in 1852, and ran a fruit-growing market garden at Teddington.

He is best known for Lorna Doone (1869), set on Exmoor. Christowell (1882) is subtitled A Dartmoor Tale.

Books on this site

• Christowell (1882)

Portrait: Richard Doddridge Blackmore, by Frederick John Jenkins, published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd, heliogravure, after 1885. NPG x7343. © National Portrait Gallery, London. Used under licence CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.