[Percy Hetherington]. Irish novelist and lawyer, born in Fane Valley, County Louth, Ireland, in 1834. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and was called to the Irish bar, and received the appointment of crown prosecutor on the northeastern circuit. But it is upon his works of fiction that his reputation is based. The most of his writings have appeared in Once a Week and All the Year Round as serials. He wrote over sixty works; among them, The Life of Lawrence Sterne (1864); Bella Donna (1864); Second Mrs. Tillotson (1866); Never Forgotten (1865); 75 Brook Street (1867); The World Behind the Scenes (1881); Kings and Queens of an Hour (1883); and Henry Irving; or, Twenty Years at the Lyceum.
