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See also:CONWAY, See also:HUGH , the nom-de-plume of See also:FREDERICK See also:JOHN FARGUS (1847–1885), See also:English novelist, who was See also:born at See also:Bristol on the 26th of See also:December 1847, the son of an auctioneer. He was intended for his See also:father's business, but at the See also:age of thirteen joined the training-See also:ship " Conway" in the See also:Mersey. In deference to his father's wishes, however, he gave up the See also:idea of becoming a sailor, and returned to Bristol, where he was articled to a See also:firm of See also:accountants till on his father's See also:death in 1868 he took over the See also:family business." While a clerk he had written the words for various songs, adopting the nom-de-plume Hugh Conway in memory of his days on the training-ship. Mr See also:Arrowsmith, the Bristol printer and publisher, took an See also:interest in his See also:work, and Fargus's first See also:short See also:story appeared in Arrow-See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
smith's See also:Miscellany. In x883 Fargus published through Arrow-smith his first See also:long story, Called Back, of which over 350,000 copies were sold within four years. A dramatic version of this See also:book was produced in See also:London in 1884, and in this See also:year Fargus published another story, Dark Days. Ordered, to the See also:Riviera for his See also:health, he caught typhoid See also:fever, and died at. See also:Monte Carlo on the 15th of May 1885. Several other books from his See also:pen appeared posthumously, notably A Family Aiair.
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