James Augustus St John
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| Born | 1795 | ||||||
| Died | 1875 | ||||||
| Occupation | literary | ||||||
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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
1844.04.09 Publication Committee: Thomas Hodgkin, MD, George Ramsay Esq., J.A. St John Esq., W. Holt Yates, MD, Hon. Mr Elphinstone, Walter K. Kelly Esq., William Aldam, MP, Richard King, MD
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
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