A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange

Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange (1832–1915), often published as A. G. K. L'Estrange, was an English writer and clergyman. Sources available here connect him with Exeter College, Oxford, and note that he served as a curate to William Harness at All Saints', Knightsbridge.

He is best remembered for literary and historical works including History of English Humour, Royal Winchester, Palace and the Hospital, or Chronicles of Greenwich, and books connected with Mary Russell Mitford and William Harness. His range suggests a writer interested not just in biography, but in the social life, wit, and local history of Victorian England.

Much of his writing now survives through public-domain and archive editions, which has helped keep his work accessible to modern readers. Even in his more documentary books, he seems drawn to personality and anecdote, giving his nonfiction an easy, human feel.