Victorian novelist who is famous for his depiction of a fictional city called Barsetshire in six popular novels that include The Warden (1855), Doctor Thorne (1858), and The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867). His other literary works include the Palliser series (1865-1880) and such stand-alone novels as Lady Anna (1874) and The Fixed Period (1882). He was born in London and later moved to Ireland, where he became an enthusiastic fox hunter. He published his first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran, in 1847.
