Crosbie Garstin

Birthday:

05/07/1887

Place of birth:

Cornwall, England, UK:

Biography:

Crosbie Garstin (7 May 1887 – 19 April 1930) was a poet, best-selling novelist and the eldest son of the Newlyn School painter Norman Garstin. He died under mysterious circumstances after a boating accident in the Salcombe estuary. He is known for the Penhale trilogy of novels based in 18th-century Cornwall.