Frank Coutts Hendry

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'''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.<ref name=coll/><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZnouCwAAQBAJ&q=%22frank+hendry%22+shalimar&pg=PT3|title=A Seaman's Book of Sea Stories|first=Desmond|last=Fforde|date=December 20, 2012|publisher=Simon and Schuster|via=Google Books|isbn=9781681467061}}</ref> His [[Military Cross]] is in the [[Royal Museums Greenwich]] collections.<ref name="coll">{{cite web|url=https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/41602.html|title=Military Cross - National Maritime Museum|website=collections.rmg.co.uk}}</ref> Several of his books were published by [[William Blackwood]]'s [[Blackwood's Magazine]] and [[William Blackwood & Sons]]. He used the pseudonym '''Shalimar'''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQoeCwAAQBAJ&q=frank+coutts+hendry&pg=PA197|title=A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language|first=T. J.|last=Carty|date=December 3, 2015|publisher=Routledge|via=Google Books|isbn=9781135955786}}</ref> Hendry was an influence on [[Courtenay Latiner]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zCxfCwAAQBAJ&q=%22f.c.+hendry%22+shalimar&pg=PA54|title=Creeping Up on Auckland|first=Courtenay|last=Latimer|date=November 4, 2005|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|via=Google Books|isbn=9781461744283}}</ref>

Hendry wrote from his own experiences.<ref name=retire/> His time at sea included on Singapore ships.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fz3VAAAAMAAJ&q=%22f.c.+hendry%22+shalimar|title=The Nautical Magazine|date=February 10, 1950|via=Google Books}}</ref> Hendry eventually retired to an area in the north of Scotland to focus on writing.<ref name=retire>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g1AQAAAAIAAJ&q=%22f.c.+hendry%22+shalimar|title=The North American Review|first1=Jared|last1=Sparks|first2=Edward|last2=Everett|first3=James Russell|last3=Lowell|first4=Henry Cabot|last4=Lodge|date=February 10, 1931|publisher=University of Northern Iowa|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* ''A Windjammer's Half Deck''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t2ZTAAAAYAAJ|title=A windjammer's half-deck|first=Frank Coutts|last=Hendry|date=February 10, 1940|publisher=Penguin books|via=Google Books}}</ref>
* ''The Ocean Tramp''
* ''Land and Sea''
* ''From all the seas'' (1933)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dRPiYgEACAAJ&q=%22f.c.+hendry%22+shalimar|title=From All the Seas, by Shalimar (f.c. Hendry).|date=February 10, 1933|publisher=William blackwood|via=Google Books}}</ref>
* One Monsoon Night (1936)
* ''Down to the Sea'' (1937)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJXlDAAAQBAJ|title=People, Place and Power on the Nineteenth-Century Waterfront|via=books.google.com|isbn=9783319331591|last1=Milne|first1=Graeme J.|date=2016-08-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OZgFgdMyZGEC&q=%22f.c.+hendry%22+shalimar&pg=PA83|title=A Mariner's Miscellany|first=Peter H.|last=Spectre|date=February 10, 2005|publisher=Sheridan House, Inc.|via=Google Books|isbn=9781574091953}}</ref>
* ''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''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pl9GcgAACAAJ|title=The Peaceful Wanderer, By Shalimar (F.C. Hendry).|first=Frank Coutts|last=Hendry|date=February 10, 1938|via=Google Books}}</ref>
* ''From the log-book of memory'' (1950),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/britishautobiogr0000matt|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/britishautobiogr0000matt/page/139 139]|quote=frank coutts hendry.|title=British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Autobiographies Published Or Written Before 1951|first=William|last=Matthews|date=January 1, 1984|publisher=University of California Press|via=Internet Archive|isbn=9780520053571}}</ref> an autobiography
* ''Around the horn and home again: and other tales'' (1929)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vj8NAQAAIAAJ|title=Around the Horn and Home Again|via=Google Books|last1=Hendry|first1=Frank Coutts|year=1929}}</ref>
* ''Through the gap'', short story<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZnouCwAAQBAJ|title=A Seaman's Book of Sea Stories|isbn=9781681467061|via=Google Books|last1=Fforde|first1=Desmond|date=20 December 2012}}</ref>
* ''Easting Down'', short story<ref>{{Cite book | title = The Oxford book of sea stories | editor-last = Tanner | editor-first = Tony | publication-date = 2002 | orig-date = 1994 | publisher = Oxford University Press | isbn = 0192803700 | oclc = 1200552340 | url = https://archive.org/details/oxfordbookofseas0000unse }}</ref>

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