RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK

RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK
   a popular writer of nautical novels, born in New York; gained his experience of sea life during eight years' service as a sailor; was a journalist on the staff of the Daily Chronicle before, in 1887, he took to writing novels, which include "John Holdsworth," "The Wreck of the 'Grosvenor,'" &c.; b. 1844.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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