Excerpt from Three Hundred Years of a Norman House: The Barons of Gournay From the 10th to the 13th Century, With Genealogical Miscellanies
Notice sur les Principales Familles de la Russie, 1843. [by Prince Dolgorouky.
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James Hannay (17 February 1827 – 9 January 1873), was a Scottish novelist, journalist and diplomat.
Hannay 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.
He was a friend of Thackeray.
For the last five years of his life he was British Consul at Barcelona.