in Ultramarine, published in 1853. In 1848, he first made the acquaintance of Thackeray and Carlyle, to whom he was proud to acknowledge his obligations. He soon improved his literary connection, and worked for papers of good position, for the quarterlies and magazines, till he became editor of the Edinburgh Evening Courant in 1860. During these years he published his best work, his two naval novels, Singleton Fontenoy (1850) and Eustace Conyers (1855), and the volume of lectures on Satire and Satirist, delivered at the Literary Institution, Edward Street, Portman Square, in 1853, and collected in book form in 1854. It was during these years also that he began to write the essays to the Quarterly, afterwards collected into a volume, and that he taught himself to read Greek. In 1857, he contested without success the representation of the Dumfries Burghs in parliament. He stood as a Tory, and was defeated by William Ewart. From 1860 to 1864, he edited the Edinburgh Evening Courant. The zeal with which he attacked conduct and persons he disliked caused his management of the paper to be somewhat conspicuous. In 1863 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being William Edmonstoune Aytoun. Consul In 1864, he returned to London, and remained there till he was appointed consul at Brest by Lord Stanley, in 1868. During these years, he published his Studies on Thackeray (1869), his Three Hundred Years of a Norman House (1866), a portion of a history of the Gurney family, and his Course of English Literature (1866), a reprint of articles contributed years before to the Welcome Guest. Hannay did not proceed to Brest, but exchanged this post for that of Barcelona in Spain. Although he continued to write for papers and magazines, chiefly for the Pall Mall Gazette and the Cornhill, he published no more books. Death Hannay's death occurred very suddenly on 9 January 1873 at Putchet, a suburb of Barcelona. Family Hannay was twice married, first, in 1853, to Margaret Anne Thompson (1833–1865), who was the niece of the artist Kenny Meadows, and who died in 1865; and then, in 1868, to Jean Hannay, a lady of the same name, but of no traceable relationship, who died in Spain in 1870. He had by the first marriage six, and by the second one child, who survived him. Principal works Biscuits and Grog, 1848