Frank Coutts Hendry Explained

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] His Military Cross is in the Royal Museums Greenwich collections.^[2] 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. His time at sea included on Singapore ships.^[5] Hendry eventually retired to an area in the north of Scotland to focus on writing.^[6]

Bibliography

• 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]

Notes and References

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