Background
Frederick Street John, second son of Frederick Street John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, was born on 3 December 1809 at Chailey, Sussex.
Frederick Street John, second son of Frederick Street John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, was born on 3 December 1809 at Chailey, Sussex.
Saint John was educated at Midhurst, Sussex, and about 1828 obtained a clerkship in the treasury, but resigned in 1834, in which year in November he married Ann Gibson, the daughter of a rich banker in Newcastle.
He and his growing family lived in succession at several rustic residences in the Highlands in Ross-shire, Inverness, Nairn, and Moray and ultimately settled in the Laigh of Moray, within easy distance of mountain sport. In 1853 a paralytic seizure deprived him of the use of his limbs on the left side of his body, and for the benefit of his health he removed to the south of England, although he never recovered the use of his limbs. They are written in a graphic style, and illustrated with engravings, many of them from clever pen-and-ink sketches of his own.