C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (1866–1944), whose full name was Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne, was an English novelist born in Bibury, Gloucestershire. He wrote adventure fiction, historical stories, scientific romances, and tales of the sea, sometimes using the pseudonym Weatherby Chesney.

His most enduring creation was Captain Kettle, a bold and unpredictable seafarer who first appeared in the 1890s and became the subject of several popular story collections. Hyne is also known for The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis, an early twentieth-century fantasy of a vanished civilization.

Hyne lived in Yorkshire in his later years and died in Kettlewell on March 10, 1944. His wide-ranging fiction remains a lively example of Victorian and Edwardian adventure writing.