Thomas William Heney, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Thomas William Heney

Australian writer

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1862

Date of Death: 19-Aug-1928

Profession: poet, journalist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Thomas William Heney

  • Thomas William Heney (5 November 1862 – 19 August 1928) was an Australian journalist and poet.
  • Heney was the son of Thomas William Heney (Snr), a printer, and Sarah Elizabeth, née Carruthers.
  • He was born in Sydney and educated at Cooma.
  • Heney Senior was a heavy drinker and died in 1875.
  • Heney joined the staff of The Sydney Morning Herald as a junior assistant reader in 1878, and became a reporter on the Sydney Daily Telegraph six years later.
  • He was editor of the Western Grazier at Wilcannia in 1886 but returned to Sydney in 1889 and worked on the Echo until it ceased publication in 1893.
  • In 1896, he married Amy, daughter of Henry Gullett. Heney rejoined the Herald as a reviewer and writer of occasional leaders, was appointed associate editor in 1899, and editor in October 1903.
  • He held this position until 1918 and was subsequently editor of the Brisbane Telegraph from 1920 to 1923, and the Sydney Daily Telegraph from 1923 to 1925.
  • He retired on account of ill health in 1925, and died of heart disease at Springwood in the Blue Mountains on 19 August 1928 and was buried in the Anglican cemetery.
  • He was survived by his wife, a son and two daughters.
  • Heney was a modest man and a first-rate journalist, with a sense of the responsibility of his office as an editor.
  • He published two volumes of poetry, Fortunate Days in 1886 and In Middle Harbour in 1890; but though he is represented in several anthologies his cultivated verse seldom reaches beyond the edge of poetry.
  • His novel, The Girl at Birrell's, is a simple story of pastoral life told with some ability.
  • Another novel, A Station Courtship, was serialized in the Melbourne Leader in 1898–99.

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