Author: Thomas Shairp
Author: Thomas Shairp (1845–1906)
Biography: Thomas Shairp was born in 1845 in Penzance, Cornwall, the son of Royal Navy Commander Alexander Shairp and his wife Eleanor (née Nott). As a youth, the family moved often. By the 1870s, he worked as a clerk in the Admiralty in Whitehall. He wrote a well-received travel book Up in the North (1872) about Norway and Sweden. In 1878, he married Emily Elizabeth Jackson and the couple had one son. After he retired in the 1880s, Shairp briefly turned to fiction writing a novel Bell and the Doctor (1882) and a story for Belgravia. He died on 11 March 1906 in St. Heliers, Jersey.
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References: British Census (1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891); Morning Post (21 March 1906)
Fiction Titles:
- Bell and the Doctor: A Novel. 3 vol. London: F. V. White, 1882.