James Augustus St John

James Augustus St John
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Born	1795
Died	1875
Occupation	literary
Society Membership membership ESL Ordinary Fellow left 1845.11.22 withdraws elected_ESL 1844.01.19

Notes

Office Notes

ESL Council 1844 Member
ESL Council 1844-45 Member
ESL Council 1845-46 Member [withdraws Nov. 1845]

House Notes

founder member ESL

Publications Committee Apr 1844; Library Committee Apr 1844

Notes From Elsewhere

James Augustus St. John (24 September 1795 – 22 September 1875), was a British author and traveller.

Publications

External Publications

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. In 1868 he published a Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, based on researches in the archives at Madrid and elsewhere

Besides the works mentioned St. John 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 Hellenes, or Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece (1842); Sir Cosmo Digby, a novel (1844); Views in the Eastern Archipelago (1847);[1] 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.

House Publications

On the Physical characters of the ancient Greeks. consideration postponed mar 1844