Hugh St. Leger

Hugh Anthony St. Leger (c. 1857Q4 1925) was an English journalist and author of juvenile fiction. He was the third youngest of eight children, but his two younger siblings both died in early childhood. His father died when he was four and St. Leger was elected to a place at the Clergy Orphan School as a result. He turned his experiences in the Merchant Navy and as a Hussar in a solid background for boy's adventure fiction.

Early life The England and Wales Christening Index shows him being baptised on 7 June 1857. He gave his age as 43 years and two months on 26 March 1900, He does not appear to be listed on the Index of Births. He was the sixth of eight children born to William Nassau St. Leger (180925 April 1861) (c. 1851Q3 1921) who attended the Clergy Orphan School at Canterbury and then Jesus College in Cambridge where he received his BA degree in 1876. He was discharged at his own request eight days later on 2 April 1900. (It is not known why he resigned.) In terms of what was happening in the Boer War, the British were already beginning to get the upper hand, Cronjé was forced to surrender with 4,000 men on 27 February 1900 and Ladysmith was relieved on 28 February. The only significant incident between St. Leger's enlistment and resignation was the engagement at Sanna's Post on 31 March 1900, where the British were defeated with a loss of 155 dead or wounded and 428 prisoners. However, news of this defeat only reached the newspapers in the UK the day after St. Leger resigned. and a house-maid. By the 1901 census, he and his wife was visiting Mary A. Baldwin in Colchester. All three girls were away in a school run by Bertha and May Stevenson at 63 Hamilton Road in Reading. His profession was not described as author.

St. Leger petitioned for bankruptcy on 16 May 1903.

Hugh died in the fourth quarter of 1925. based on the JISC catalogue data. Moreover, Baker gives 1901 as the year of publication for The Lion Cub.