Augustus F. Lindley

Born in 1840, Augustus Frederick Lindley was a British adventurer and writer who served in the Royal Navy before becoming closely involved with the Taiping movement in China. He later wrote about those experiences in Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh, the book most strongly associated with his name.

What makes Lindley stand out is how directly he wrote from experience. Rather than observing events from a distance, he took part in them, and that gives his work an immediacy that still interests readers of history, travel, and eyewitness memoir.

He died in 1873 at a relatively young age. No suitable verified portrait image could be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so a profile image is not included here.