Bayle St John
Bayle St John
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Office Notes
ESL Council 1843-44 Member
ESL Council 1844-45 Member
ESL Council 1845-46 Member [withdraws Nov. 1845]
House Notes
founder member ESL
1844.01.02 Bayle St John Esq. was elected a Member of Council
1844.04.09 Library Committee: George Ramsay Esq., Bayle St John Esq., Thomas May Esq., Joseph Charles King Esq., Thomas Hodgkin, MD, Walter K. Kelly Esq., J.A. St John Esq., Richard King, MD
1845.11.22 Notices of withdrawal were read from: James Augustus St John Esq., Walter K. Kelly Esq., Bayle St John Esq., John Turner Esq., James Yearsley Esq.
Notes From Elsewhere
Bayle St. John (1822-1859)[1] was a British travel writer and biographer, one of the four sons of James Augustus St. John, who went on to become journalists and authors of some literary distinction. ... while in Egypt he learnt Arabic and visited the oasis of Siwa. On his return he settled for some time in Paris
He died in 1859, leaving a widow and two sons, and was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London.[2]
Publications
External Publications
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. To the same magazine he contributed a series of essays on Montaigne, and in 1857 he published Montaigne the Essayist, a Biography, in four volumes.
During a residence of two years in Egypt he wrote The Libyan Desert (1849),
Two Years in a Levantine Family (1850) and Views in the Oasis of Siwah (1850). After a second visit to the East he published Village Life in Egypt (1852); Purple Tints of Paris; Characters and Manners in the New Empire (1854); The Louvre, or Biography of a Museum (1855); The Subalpine Kingdom, or Experiences and Studies in Savoy (1856); Travels of an Arab Merchant in the Soudan (1854); Maretimo, a Story of Adventure (1856); and Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon in the Reign of Louis XIV (four vols., 1857).
House Publications
On the Mongols TO BE READ 1844 [24 JAN.]printed march