James Hannay, novelist and journalist, was born at Dumfries, Scotland, and at age 13 joined the Royal Navy from which he was dismissed 5 years later. The greater part of his career was occupied with miscellaneous journalism in England and Scotland. In 1850 he was a contributor to Punch and edited the Edinburgh Courant from 1860-1864. For the last five years of his life he was British Consul at Barcelona.

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  • James Hannay, novelist and journalist, was born at Dumfries, Scotland, and at age 13 joined the Royal Navy from which he was dismissed 5 years later. The greater part of his career was occupied with miscellaneous journalism in England and Scotland. In 1850 he was a contributor to Punch and edited the Edinburgh Courant from 1860-1864. For the last five years of his life he was British Consul at Barcelona.
  • James Hannay, Pseudonym Percival Plug war ein britischer Journalist und Schriftsteller. Hannay (spr. hanneh) trat mit 13 Jahren in die Marine ein, nahm aber 1845 seinen Abschied, um sich der Literatur zu widmen. Außer Beiträgen zu Zeitschriften, besonders zum Punch, veröffentlichte er unter dem Pseudonym Percival Plug Biscuits and Grog. Personal reminiscences and sketches. By Percival Plug, R.N. (late Midshipman of H.M.S. "Preposterous") (1848), fortgesetzt in A Claret-Cup. Further reminiscences and sketches of Percival Plug, R.N. (1848).
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  • George A. Birmingham
  • the 19th century Scottish author
  • the Irish novelist and clergyman James Owen Hannay
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  • James Hannay, novelist and journalist, was born at Dumfries, Scotland, and at age 13 joined the Royal Navy from which he was dismissed 5 years later. The greater part of his career was occupied with miscellaneous journalism in England and Scotland. In 1850 he was a contributor to Punch and edited the Edinburgh Courant from 1860-1864. For the last five years of his life he was British Consul at Barcelona.
  • James Hannay, Pseudonym Percival Plug war ein britischer Journalist und Schriftsteller. Hannay (spr. hanneh) trat mit 13 Jahren in die Marine ein, nahm aber 1845 seinen Abschied, um sich der Literatur zu widmen. Außer Beiträgen zu Zeitschriften, besonders zum Punch, veröffentlichte er unter dem Pseudonym Percival Plug Biscuits and Grog. Personal reminiscences and sketches. By Percival Plug, R.N. (late Midshipman of H.M.S. "Preposterous") (1848), fortgesetzt in A Claret-Cup.
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  • James Hannay
  • James Hannay
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