William Gordon Stables

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Stables, on the right. His dog Hurrican Bob is at his side, and an unknown person stands to the left.
Stables, on the right. His dog Hurrican Bob is at his side, and an unknown person stands to the left.

William Gordon Stables MD, CM. RN (1840 -1910) was a Scottish-born medical doctor in the Royal Navy and a prolific author of adventure fiction, primarily for boys.

[edit] Life and works

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William Gordon Stables was born in Aberchirder, in Banffshire (now part of Aberdeenshire), on 21 May 1840. After studying medicine at the University of Aberdeen, he served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy. He came ashore in 1875, and settled in Twyford, Berkshire, in England.

He wrote over 130 books. The bulk of his large output is boys' adventure fiction, often with a nautical or historical setting. He also wrote books on health, fitness and medical subjects, and the keeping of cats and dogs. He was a copious contributor of articles and stories to the Boy's Own Paper.

He is also notable as the first person to order a "gentleman’s caravan" from the Bristol Carriage Company, in which he travelled the length of Great Britain in 1885 (the subject of his book The Gentleman Gypsy).

He died in Twyford on 10 May 1910.


[edit] References and external links

British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index [[1]]