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James was born in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, in 1795, the son of Gelly John, a shoemaker.
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Journal of a Residence in Normandy
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The Lives of Celebrated Travelers
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Abdallah; An Oriental Poem: In Three Cantos; With Other Pieces (Classic Reprint)
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The history of the manners and customs of ancient Greece. In three volumes
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James Augustus St. John
Edit ProfileEducation
James recorded that he received instruction from a local clergyman, eventually mastering the classics, and acquiring proficiency in French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, and Persian.
Career
As James John, his baptismal name, he became involved in radical politics. Under the name of Julian Augustus St John he went to London, where he obtained the post of deputy editor of Richard Carlile's radical newspaper The Republican. In 1819, shortly after the Peterloo Massacre, Carlile was imprisoned and St. John briefly took over his role as editor.
He obtained a connection with a Plymouth-based newspaper, and when, in 1824, James Silk Buckingham started the Oriental Herald, St. John became assistant editor. In 1827, together with D. L. Richardson, he founded the London Weekly Review, subsequently purchased by Colburn and transformed into the Court Journal. He lived for some years on the Continent and went in 1832 to Egypt and Nubia, travelling mostly on foot. The results of his journey were published under the titles Egypt and Mohammed Ali, or Travels in the Valley of the Nile (2 vols. , 1834), Egypt and Nubia (1844), and Isis, an Egyptian Pilgrimage (2 vols. , 1853). On his return he settled in London, and for many years wrote political leaders for the Daily Telegraph and, under the pseudonym of Greville Booke, a column in the Sunday Times. In 1868 he published a Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, based on researches in the archives at Madrid and elsewhere. He died in London in 1875.
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Under the pseudonym of Horace Gwynne he wrote Abdallah; an oriental poem: in three cantos (1824). Under the name of St. John, besides the works mentioned above, he was also the author of Journal of a Residence in Normandy (1830); Lives of Celebrated Travellers (1830); Anatomy of Society (1831); History, Manners and Customs of the Hindus (1831); Margaret Ravenscroft, or Second Love (3 vols. , 1835); The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece (3 vols. 1842); Sir Cosmo Digby, a novel (1844); Views in the Eastern Archipelago (1847)[1]; Oriental album. Characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile (1848); [2][3] Oriental album. .. (2nd ed. ) (1851); Isis: An Egyptian Pilgrimage (1853); There and Back Again in Search of Beauty (1853); The Nemesis of Power (1854); Philosophy at the Foot of the Cross (1854); The Preaching of Christ (1855); The Ring and the Veil, a novel (1856); Life of Louis Napoleon (1857); History of the Four Conquests of England (1862); and Weighed in the Balance, a novel (1864). He also edited, with notes, various English classics.
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History of the Four Conquests of England
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Journal of a Residence in Normandy
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The Lives of Celebrated Travelers
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Abdallah; An Oriental Poem: In Three Cantos; With Other Pieces (Classic Reprint)
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Margaret Ravenscroft, Or, Second Love
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History of the Four Conquests of England
Views
Quotations:
"If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance. "
"We are the hands, feet and mouthpiece of Christ. We are His ambassadors on Earth, called to stop injustice and restore His people. "
Connections
He had sons, Percy Bolingbroke St. John (1821–1889), Bayle St. John (1822–1859), Sir Spenser St. John (1826–1910) and Horace Roscoe St. John (1830–1888). All became journalists and authors of some literary distinction, particularly Bayle St. John, who began contributing to periodicals when only thirteen, and went on to be a prolific travel writer and biographer.
James had eight children in all. In addition to those named above are:
Elizabeth Ann St. John (1824-?)
James Augustus St. John (1829-1880)
Helen Cornelia St. John(1831-1858)
Vane Ireton Shaftesbury St. John (1838-1911).
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- Bayle St. John
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- Spenser St. John
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- Percy Bolingbroke St John
Bayle St. John began contributing to periodicals when only thirteen, and when twenty he wrote a series of papers for Fraser under the title De re vehiculari, or a Comic History of Chariots.
He was British Consul in Brunei in the mid 19th century.
He accompanied his father on some of his travels, particularly to Madrid for research, and he also travelled in America.
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