James Hannay

James Hannay, alias Percival Plug ( born February 17, 1827 in Dumfries, Scotland, † January 9, 1873 in Barcelona) was a British journalist and writer.

Hannay ( pron. Hanneh ) occurred with 13 years in the Navy, but took his departure in 1845 to devote himself to literature.

Besides contributions to periodicals, especially to the punch, he published under the pseudonym Percival Plug Biscuits and Grog. Personal reminiscences and sketches. By Percival Plug, R.N. (late midshipman of HMS " Preposterous " ) ( 1848), continued in A Claret Cup. Further reminiscences and sketches of Percival Plug, RN (1848 ).

Major works

  • Hearts are Trumps (1849, new ed 1873);
  • King Dobbs, sketches in ultramarine (1849, new ed 1856)
  • Singleton Fontenoy (1850, new ed 1873)
  • The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe: With a Notice of His Life and Genius 1853.
  • Satire and satirists. Six lectures. Reprint Norwood: Norwood Ed, 1977, ISBN 0-8482-1107-3. .
  • Sand and Shells (1854 )
  • Eustace Conyers (1855, German 1856)
  • Essays from the Quarterly Review (1861 )
  • A brief memoir of the late Mr. Thackeray (1864 )
  • Studies on Thackeray. Repr d ed 1868 Port Washington, NY:. Kennikat Press, 1970 ISBN 0-8046-0828-8. .
  • Characters and Criticisms (1865 );
  • A course of English literature (1866 )
  • Three hundred years of a Norman house; the barons of Gournay from the 10th to the 13th century, with genealogical miscellanies (1867 ).
  • The History of Acadia from its first discovery to its surrender to England by the Treaty of Paris. St. John, N.B.: Mac Millan, in 1879.

From 1860 to 1864 he was the Edinburgh Courant out.

In 1868 he was appointed British consul in Barcelona, where he died on January 9, 1873.

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