JAMES HANNAY BIOGRAPHY
JAMES HANNAY BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
HANNAY, JAMES (1827-1873). —Novelist and journalist, was born at Dumfries, and after serving for some years in the navy took to literature, and became ed. of the Edinburgh Courant . He wrote two novels, Singleton Fontenoy (1850), and Eustace Conyers (1855); also Lectures on Satire and Satirists , and Studies on Thackeray . For the last five years of his life he was British Consul at Barcelona.