“ Kindness itself, he observed high standards in his own life and expected others to observe them. He was incapable of tempering the truth, as he saw and understood it, out of any consideration of personal interest of worldly expediency, and this incapacity often stood in the way of success as a writer and journalist. ”

“ David McDowall Hannay was born in London on December 25, 1853. His father, James Hannay, entered the Navy in 1840, and served in the Syrian War, but at heart he was a journalist and satirist, and while still in the service he produced a comic manuscript journal in which he ridiculed the admirals and captains in the Mediterranean. ”

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