Allfrey, Dr. Charles H, - (while practising in Kent was a friend of Charles Darwin and signed  his death certificate.)

• Fifty Years of Medical and Surgical Progress and the Part Played in it by Experimental Research.

Anson, Sir Archibald Edward Harbord  - last Lieutenant Governor of Penang, author (autobiography) resident and officer holder in Hastings for many years.

• About Others and Myself, 1745 to 1920

Boase, Frederic - lawyer and biographer, died in St Leonards.

• Catalogue of the printed books in the library of the Incorporated Law Society.by Law Society (Great Britain). Library. Published 1891
• Modern English Biography, in 6 volumes

Boulnois, Charles - reporter of Indian Appeals in England for the authorised Indian Law Reports,  1879-1901

• Notes on Punjab Customary Law, Lahore, 1876 (joint author)
• Notes on customary law as administered in the courts of the Punjab

Bowser, Ida Thekla

• Britain's Civilian Volunteers; Authorized Story of British Voluntary Aid Detachment Work in the Great War" (also published as "The Story Of British V.A.D. Work In The Great War"

 Short story. The Mark of Madness - Liverpool Herald Saturday 12 November 1904 p 12,

 Photography as a profession for girls. A chat with Miss Lizzie Caswall-Smith. Young Woman Vol 13 August 1905 pp 388 - 389, illus.

 Kalgoorlie Miner Monday 24 September 1906 p 6 Article - The Doctor's Tragic Fate.

 The Queenslander Saturday 17 November 1906 -Some Strange Superstitions. in "Woman."

 'A Literary Temptation: A Story of a Girl's Journalistic Experiences.' (1909/10):

 .The Mail (Adelaide) Saturday 8 December 1917

 An article by Thekla Bowser, in the 'Queen,' speaks of the tragedy of a torpedoed hospital ship.

 The Whole Art of Bandaging. By Thekla Bowser, F.J.I. with Introduction by James Cantlie, M.A..M.B., F.R.C.8. With numerous Illustrations. Price Is. net, postage 2d.

 Six Lectures to St. John V. A. D. Members - Thekla Bowser

 

Brett, Thomas Brandon

The monument by which his literary labours will be best remembered is the local history, which extends into many large volumes. Work on the Cinque Ports and a volume on the subject of Anti-Vaccination

 

Cayley, Charles Bagot 1823 - 1883

 Dante, La Divina Commedia (trans.), 1851 - 1855

 Psyche’s Interludes (poems), 1857

 Metrical translation of the Psalms, 1860

 Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (trans.), 1867

 The Iliad of Homer hexametrically translated, 1877

•   Petrarch’s Sonnets and Stanzas (trans.), 1880

 

Chamier, Frederick - wrote a series of novels with nautical themes.  

At least two of his books (Jack Adams, the Mutineer and Passion and Principle) were translated into German under the titles Jack Adams, der Meuterer and Leidenschaft und Grundsatz.

 A review of the French Revolution of 1848 *

 (1849)

 My Travels or an Unsentimental journey through France, Switzerland and Italy

 (1855)

 Trevor Hastings - edited (and continued down to 1827)

• James’ Naval History (1837)

Clowes , Sir William Laird - a British journalist, author and historian, whose principal work was " :  a skilled linguist and contributed frequently to reviews in England, France, and Germany.  Besides historical and technical books he wrote many stories, mainly of the sea, and has some poetry published.  He was part author of Social England and in 1896, founded and for some years edited, the Naval Pocket Book. He also edited Cassell's Miniature Cyclopaedia (1898).

• The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900" [still in print]
• The Captain of the Mary Rose; a Tale of tomorrow
• Trafalgar Rethought
• Black America

Cope, Charles Elvey - a writer, poet, composer, organ builder, organist and choirmaster

co author with George Bernard Shaw of a book called ‘The Greatest Craze of the Age’, a book about the tobacco habit

• The Pursuit of a Chimera: Being a Mid-winter's Day Dream by Mr. C. Elvey Cope, 1893 is described in The Pall Mall Gazette ".. much imagination and pretty description in the book" and the St James' Gazette says "Fiction of the weird order, but imaginatively written."

 Songs Of A City [1923]

 The Golden Art [1925]

 Out Of The World's Medley [1928]

 Thor [1930]

• Downland Echoes [1937]

Cousins, Henry -  historian of Hastings, and for many years one of its most prominent townsmen,

• Hastings of bygone days -and the present

Dalrymple, George Augustus Frederick Elphinstone -

• Proposals for the Establishment of a New Pastoral Settlement in North Australia.
• Dalrymple's account of the expedition was published in 'Narrative and reports of the Queensland North-East Coast Expedition, 1873' by the Government Printer in 1874

Eastwood, Rev. Johnathan - author; curate at St Leonards for a very short time

•  History of the Parish of Ecclesfield, Yorks., 1862; with Dr William Aldis Wright
•  Bible Word-book, a Glossary of Old English Bible Words.
• Contributor to the English Dictionary projected by the Philological Society

 

Furniss, Harry - wrote and illustrated twenty-nine books of his own, including  and Sand illustrated thirty-four works by other authors

• The Confessions of a Caricaturist
• Some Victorian Men
• Some Victorian Women
• Australian sketches made on tour
• Pen and pencil in Parliament, comp: and illustrated by Harry Furniss
• Flying Visits  

Gardiner, Gerald -

• The judicial attitude to penal reform / by Gerald Gardiner and Nigel Curtis-Raleigh by Gerald Austin
• Capital punishment as a deterrent: And the alternative by Gerald Austin Gardiner  (1956)
• Report by Lord Gardiner on procedures for the interrogation of persons suspected of terrorism by Gerald Austin Gardiner (1974)
• Law Reform now. Edited by G. A. Gardiner, Q.C., and A. Martin  (1963)
• Living it Down (Justice Reports) by Gerald Austin
• Gardiner  (Feb 1972)

Hatchard, Reverend John Alton

• Romanism Overthrown by Wellington, a sermon preached on the death of the Duke of Wellington in 1852

Hawkins , Emily L. (Laurence Therval) - Film script, plays

• A game for two
• Mary’s work”  
• Letters of Credit.
• Christina” a “Scottish divert” in 3 acts by Miss Laurence Therval, from the story by J. J. Bell author of “Wee MacGregor”

Huckle, Dr Arthur Henry Headley

• Blood Sugar Estimations By General Practitioners

Jacob, Lieut.Col. Harold Fenton  Served in India and South West Arabia: He wrote two books, which are still available:

• Kings of Arabia - the Rise and Set of the Turkish Sovereignty in the Arabian Peninsula
• Perfumes of Araby - Silhouettes of Al Yemen

Kincaid, Captain Sir John

• Adventures with the Rifle Brigade.” (Published 1830)
• Random Shots of a Rifleman

Lutwidge, Rev. Charles Henry

• Ministerial caution enforced in a sermon on Acts ii. 28. With a MS. letter from the author to Archdeacon Wrangham1834
• The Church of England can take no middle stand between Protestant truth and Papal error. A sermon on 2 Cor. i. 241842
• by Charles Henry Lutwidge
• A popular system of Divinity; as comprised in the Liturgy, Services, and Articles, of the Church of England: in...1828
• by Charles Henry Lutwidge

 

Lutwidge, Henrietta

• Morning Prayer for a child Unknown Binding – 1863
• Prayers for children and young persons. Fourth edition  – 1862
• Questioning cards on the prophecies relating to the Messiah U– 1862
• A Selection of Hymns and sacred songs, for the use of Sunday and Day Schools. Compiled by H. M. L  – 1861

 

Penley, William Sidney

• Penley on himself: the confessions of a conscientious artist published in 1896
• Edition Notes - A fictionised and facetious account of the author's preparations for various theatrical roles.

Percival, William Spencer - H.B.M. Civil Service / Shanghai China; author and adventurer

• Twenty Years in the Far East
• The Land of the Dragon

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Phillips, Stephen - a poet who enjoyed a decade of fame, said to have died with the word 'Hastings' on his lips

• Eremus (1894)
• Christ in Hades (1896)
• Poems (1898)
• The New Inferno
• Panama
• Paolo and Francesca
• Herod
• Ulysses
• Nero

Piasecki, Sergiusz - a Polish writer, convicted armed robber and smuggler, a brave resistance fighter, a member of Intelligence forces, an executioner……..

•   Kochanek Wielkiej Niedzwiedzicy (The Lover of Ursa Major) published in 1937
•  Zapiski oficera Armii Czerwonej (The Memoirs of a Red Army Officer)
• Jabluszko (Polish Edition)
• Nikt nie da nam zbawienia (Polish Edition)
• Spojrze ja w okno (Polish Edition)

 

Prelooker, Jaakoff  - Russian emigre, founder of ‘New Israel’, prolific writer, lecturer and emancipist

 1885: Principles of Altruism in the Ethical Systems of Judaism and Christianity

 The Future Prospects of Both Religions.

 1888: (in Yiddish) two issues of Rabbi Shalom, popularizing the "New Israel" movement

 1890: (in Vienna, in German): Zivischen Judenthum, Christenthum, und alien anderen Religionen. Drama in einem Aufsuge und Zwei Bildern

 1894: (first publication in English) The Hidden Jewel, or Ideas and Forms in  Religion

 1895: Under the Czar and Queen Victoria; The Experiences of a Russian Reformer

 1897-99: From the Stage to the Cross, an Anglo-Russian political novel, serialised in his  journal, The Anglo-Russian.

 1900: 'The Lady Cavalier' : [Nadezhda Andreyevna Dourova] the marvellous story of a Russian girl who, disguised as a boy, entered the army, and bravely fought in many battles

 1902: (rewritten in English) Rabbi Shalom on the Shores of the  Black Sea, introducing quite new ideas, scenes and  episodes, the publication of which would have been  impossible in Russia.

 1904: Russia, what she was, and what she is. An Excursion into a Land of Seething Volcanoes

 1905: (in Russian) Wanted: an Anti-Government Government.  Russians, Poles, Jews, Finns, Armenians, Letts, Lithuanians, and others, unite

 1907: Heroes and  Heroines of Russia. True and Thrilling Stories

 1912: Under the Russian and British flags : a story of true experience with illus / by Jackoff Prelooker, containing also "The Lion and the Bear"

 

Ross, Percy T - Sergeant -  author, artist, sportsman.  KIA, WW1 - a talented ‘black and white’ artist and a versatile and talented writer

• A Yeoman’s Letters
• A Mock Idyll.
• The Adventures of Trooper Phibbs  chatty articles onin the current number of The Reveille.

 

Shipton, Anna – In the years between 1855 and 1890 Anna Shipton published over twenty books, several running into two or more editions on both sides of the Atlantic

 Tell Jesus: recollections of Emily Gosse

 Poems

 The secret of the Lord

 Wayside service

 Precious gems for the Saviour's diadem

 The lost blessing

 Whispers in the palms

 The secret of the Lord

 The gift of the knees, or, The ministry of prayer, the ministry of power

 Waiting hours with the hungry, and weary, and thirsty in the wilderness

 The brook in the way: original hymns and poems.

 Hidden springs

 Poems

 The watchtower in the wilderness

 Waymarks of my pilgrimage: poems

 

Thorburn , Thomas James -  was quite a prolific writer of religious books, some of which are still available

• ‘A Critical Examination of the Evidence for the Doctrine of the Virgin Birth’
• ‘The Mythical Interpretation of the Gospels’
• The Resurrection Narratives And Modern Criticism: A Critique Mainly of Professor Schmiedel's Article Resurrection Narratives in the Encyclopedia Biblica

 On diseases of menstruation and ovarian inflammation : in connexion with sterility, pelvic tumours, & affections of the womb  The change of life in health and disease. : A clinical treatise on the diseases of the ganglionic nervous system incidental to …

 Health In India For British Women, And On The Prevention Of Disease In Tropical Climates

 A Handbook of Uterine Therapeutics and of Diseases of Women

 'Education of Girls', British Medical Journal, 1 (2 April 1887)

Wills, William –

•  ‘An Essay on the Principles of Circumstantial Evidence’ which ran to at least three editions and is still a standard legal text’
• A paper on judiciary statistics, read at a meeting of the Birmingham literary and philosophical Society, on the 1st of July, 1839

 

Yeates, Victor Maslin - died in Fairlight Sanitorium

• 'Winged Victory