Silas K. Hocking

Silas Kitto Hocking (24 March 1850 – 15 September 1935) was a Cornish[1][2] novelist and Methodist preacher.

Although intended to follow his father into the tin business, he felt called to the Methodist ministry.

It was, however, with his second novel that he won great fame; Her Benny (1879), a story of the street children of Liverpool.

[3] Other works include God's Outcast (1898) which reflects on the nature of guilt; and, To Pay the Price (1900), a morality story of theft and redemption.

[6] Silas Hocking is buried in St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, along with his son, who died of Spanish flu in 1919, and his wife.