Frank Coutts Hendry

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Frank Coutts Hendry OBE, MC (1875–1955) served in the Indian Army Reserve, Merchant Navy, Rangoon Pilot Service, was an Indian Army officer, and author.[1][2] His Military Cross is in the Royal Museums Greenwich collections.[1] Several of his books were published by William Blackwood's Blackwood's Magazine and William Blackwood & Sons. He used the pseudonym Shalimar.[3] Hendry was an influence on Courtenay Latiner.[4]

Hendry wrote from his own experiences.[5] His time at sea included on Singapore ships.[6] Hendry eventually retired to an area in the north of Scotland to focus on writing.[5]

Bibliography[edit]

  • A Windjammer's Half Deck[7]
  • The Ocean Tramp
  • Land and Sea
  • From all the seas (1933)[8]
  • One Monsoon Night (1936)
  • Down to the Sea (1937)[9][10]
  • From the Log Book of Memory
  • True tales of sail and steam
  • Sail Ho!
  • The Yomah-and after
  • En havets demon
  • Deep seas and shoal rivers
  • The peaceful wanderer[11]
  • From the log-book of memory (1950),[12] an autobiography
  • Around the horn and home again: and other tales (1929)[13]
  • Through the gap, short story[14]
  • Easting Down, short story[15]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Military Cross - National Maritime Museum". collections.rmg.co.uk.
  2. ^ Fforde, Desmond (December 20, 2012). A Seaman's Book of Sea Stories. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781681467061 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Carty, T. J. (December 3, 2015). A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language. Routledge. ISBN 9781135955786 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Latimer, Courtenay (November 4, 2005). Creeping Up on Auckland. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781461744283 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ a b Sparks, Jared; Everett, Edward; Lowell, James Russell; Lodge, Henry Cabot (February 10, 1931). "The North American Review". University of Northern Iowa – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "The Nautical Magazine". February 10, 1950 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Hendry, Frank Coutts (February 10, 1940). "A windjammer's half-deck". Penguin books – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "From All the Seas, by Shalimar (f.c. Hendry)". William blackwood. February 10, 1933 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Milne, Graeme J. (2016-08-24). People, Place and Power on the Nineteenth-Century Waterfront. ISBN 9783319331591 – via books.google.com.
  10. ^ Spectre, Peter H. (February 10, 2005). A Mariner's Miscellany. Sheridan House, Inc. ISBN 9781574091953 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Hendry, Frank Coutts (February 10, 1938). "The Peaceful Wanderer, By Shalimar (F.C. Hendry)" – via Google Books.
  12. ^ Matthews, William (January 1, 1984). British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Autobiographies Published Or Written Before 1951. University of California Press. p. 139. ISBN 9780520053571 – via Internet Archive. frank coutts hendry.
  13. ^ Hendry, Frank Coutts (1929). "Around the Horn and Home Again" – via Google Books.
  14. ^ Fforde, Desmond (20 December 2012). A Seaman's Book of Sea Stories. ISBN 9781681467061 – via Google Books.
  15. ^ Tanner, Tony, ed. (2002) [1994]. The Oxford book of sea stories. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192803700. OCLC 1200552340.
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