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James Augustus St. John

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22: 169: 704: 67:, and acquiring proficiency in French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic and Persian. As James John, his baptismal name, he became involved in radical politics. He had to leave Laugharne to avoid arrest, after writing what the authorities deemed to be a seditious pamphlet. 160:, whom he greatly admired. In 1828, while editor of the London Weekly Review, he published a poem he claimed was written by Shelley, "To the Queen of My Heart". Experts now believe that James actually wrote the poem, and claimed it was Shelley's, as a hoax. 348:. However, like so many members of the St. John family, Horace acquired substantial debts, and filed for bankruptcy. He published very little after 1872, suffering from ill health, and he died on 29 February 1888. 611:
Oriental album, characters, costumes and modes of life in the valley of the Nile / illustrated from designs taken on the spot by E. Prisse. ; With descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St John, author
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Views in the Eastern Archipelago / from drawings made on the spot by Captn Drinkwater Bethune, R.N.C.B., Commander L.G.Heath, R.N., and others; The Descriptive Letter-press by James Augustus St John Esqr...
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Late in 1819, he married Eliza Caroline Agar Hansard (c.1798–1867), daughter of Alexander Hansard, a Bristol doctor. Among their children were:
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Horace Stebbing St. John was born in Normandy on 6 July 1830, and was educated by his father. When he was only 20, Horace published
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James Augustus St. John is mentioned in 'Flashman on the March' by George MacDonald Fraser as an authority on female breasts.
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Bayle began contributing to periodicals when only thirteen, and went on to be a prolific travel writer and biographer.
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until his father died in 1802 after which he received instruction from a local clergyman, eventually mastering the
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Under the name of Julian Augustus St John he went to London, where he obtained the post of deputy editor of
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compiled by his descendants, with additional biographical details of him and his six sons and two daughters
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Portraits of men of eminence in literature, science, and art : with biographical memoirs Vol VI 1866
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On the 22 September 1875, James Augustus St. John died in relative poverty in London and was buried in
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Percy, Bayle, and Horace all became journalists and authors of some literary distinction.
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Oriental album. Characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile
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Spenser also wrote, but distinguished himself as a diplomat, at first in
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Much of this has been superseded by the article in the Oxford
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and, under the pseudonym of Greville Brooke, a column in the
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Egypt and Mohammed Ali, or Travels in the Valley of the Nile
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The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece
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From the Penny Dreadful to the Ha'penny Dreadfuller
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From the Penny Dreadful to the Ha'penny Dreadfuller
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Index


Ernest Edwards
British
Laugharne
Carmarthenshire
Wales
charity school
classics
Richard Carlile
Peterloo Massacre
Plymouth
James Silk Buckingham
D. L. Richardson
Egypt
Nubia
Walter Raleigh
Madrid
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Highgate Cemetery
Highgate Cemetery
Louis Napoleon
Percy Bolingbroke St. John
Bayle St. John
Spenser St. John
Horace Stebbing Roscoe St. John
Vane Ireton Shaftesbury St John
Labuan
Borneo
Brooke Raj in Sarawak

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