Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859 – 20 March 1936)
was an
Irish author, historian, and
nationalist politician. He was a
Member of Parliament (MP) from 1884 to 1892, taking his seat in the
House of Commons of the
United Kingdom.
He was the son of
Justin McCarthy (1830–1912). Since both father and son were authors, historians, and Members of Parliament, they are sometimes confused in lists and compilations.
Political career
McCarthy was first elected to
Parliament at a
by-election on 12 June 1884, when he was returned unopposed as the
Home Rule League member for
Athlone
Athlone (; ) is a town on the border of County Roscommon and County Westmeath, Ireland. It is located on the River Shannon near the southern shore of Lough Ree. It is the second most populous town in the Midlands Region with a population of ...
, following the death of the
Liberal MP
Sir John James Ennis.
Athlone lost its status as a
parliamentary borough
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History
In the Middle Ag ...
under the
Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and at the
1885 general election McCarthy stood instead in the
borough of Newry in
County Down
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, where he was returned unopposed for the
Irish Parliamentary Party. He was re-elected in
1886
Events
January–March
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, with a comfortable majority over the
Liberal Unionist Reginald Saunders, but did not contest the
1892 election.
Writing
McCarthy wrote various novels, plays, poetical pieces and short histories. He was briefly married to the actress
Cissie Loftus. They married in Edinburgh in 1894, and though they divorced in 1899, she originated the role of Katherine de Vaucelles, the heroine in ''If I Were King'' in 1901.
Among other works, he wrote biographies of Sir
Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835 and 1841–1846) simultaneously serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer ...
(1891),
Pope Leo XIII (1896) and
William Ewart Gladstone (1898). In 1889 he published prose translations of 466 quatrains of the ''
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam''. He also wrote:
In 1893, he translated some Gazels from Divan of Hafiz, the 14th century Persian poet, which was published in a 152-page volume by David Nutt. 1000 copies were made, 800 for England and 200 for America.
*''
Serapion and Other Poems'' (1883)
*''
Outline of Irish History
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'' (1883)
*''
England under Gladstone, 1880-1885'', 2nd ed. (1885)
*''Doom'' (1886)
*''
Our Sensation Novel
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'' (1886)
*''Hafiz in London'' (1886)
*''Lady Burton's Edition of Her Husband's Arabian Nights Translated Literally from the Arabic'' (1886-1888); Prepared for Household Reading by Justin Huntly McCarthy, MD; 6 vols.; London: Waterlow & Sons, Limited, London Wall.
*''
The Case for Home Rule'' (1887)
*''
Camiola, a Girl with a Fortune'' (1888)
*''An outline of Irish history: from the earliest times to the present day'' (1890)
*''Lily Lass'' (1890)
*''
The Fate of Fenella: A Novel'', co-written in 1892.
* Divan of Hafiz, ''Gazels'', translated by J H McCarthy London: D.Nutt (1893)
*''Modern England'' (1898)
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Michel de Montaigne
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, ''
Essayes of Montaigne'' (1899) Justin Huntly McCarthy Editor
*''Cissie Loftus: An Appreciation'' (1899)
*''Reminiscences'' (2 vols., 1899)
*''A Short History of the United States'' (1899)
*''A Woman of Impulse'' (1899) was made into a film in 1918 ''
Woman of Impulse''
*''The French Revolution,'' (1890 Vols 1,2 & 1897 Vols 3,4)
*''A History of the Four Georges (and of William IV)'' (1901) with Justin McCarthy
*''If I Were King'' (1901)
Garden Theatre (New York)
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, (1902)
St James's Theatre (London)), which was named "Best Play of the 1901–02
Broadway Season", and was adapted into the 1925 operetta ''
The Vagabond King
''The Vagabond King'' is a 1925 operetta by Rudolf Friml in four acts, with a book and lyrics by Brian Hooker and William H. Post, based upon Justin Huntly McCarthy's 1901 romantic novel and play ''If I Were King''. The story is a fictionaliz ...
'', its ''
1930 film version'', its ''
1956 film version'', and the 1938 film ''
If I Were King''.
*''
The Reign of Queen Anne'' (1902)
*''Marjorie'' (1903)
*''The Proud Prince'' (1903), the play opened at The Lyceum, Broadway, NY on 2 Nov 1903.
*''The lady of Loyalty house'' (1904)
*''The Dryad'' (1905)
*''The flower of France'' (1906)
*''The illustrious O'Hagan'' (1906)
*''Needles and Pins'' (1907)
*''Seraphica: A Romance'' (1907)
*''The Duke's Motto: A Melodrama'' (1908)
*''The god of love'' (1909)
*''The gorgeous Borgia: a romance'' (1909)
*''The O'Flynn: A Novel'' (1910)
*''The king over the water: or, The marriage of Mr. Melancholy'' (1911)
*''A health unto His Majesty'' (1912)
*''Calling the Tune'' (1913) it was made into a musical film in 1936, ''
Calling the Tune
''Calling the Tune'' was a 1936 British musical drama film directed by Reginald Denham and Thorold Dickinson and starring Adele Dixon, Sally Gray and Sam Livesey. It was based on a play written by the Irish MP and novelist, Justin Huntly McCarth ...
''.
*''Fool of April'' (1914)
*''
The Glorious Rascal (Pretty Maids All in a Row)'' (1915)
*''
Nurse Benson'' (1919)
*''
Henry Elizabeth'' (1920)
*''
The Golden Shoe'' (1921)
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Family life
McCarthy married musical artist Cecilia Loftus
Cecilia Loftus (born Marie Cecilia Loftus Brown; 22 October 1876 – 12 July 1943) was a Scottish actress, singer, mimic, vaudevillian, and music hall performer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Early life
Loftus was born in Glasgow, ...
in 1893 in Edinburgh, Scotland, but the marriage did not last long and was dissolved in 1899.["Deaths." Times ondon, England23 Mar. 1936: 1. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 31 May 2015.]
References
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External links
*Repository for ''Rubaiyat'' of Omar Khaiyyam
Trinity College Dublin Library
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Irish non-fiction writers
Irish male non-fiction writers
Irish Parliamentary Party MPs
Home Rule League MPs
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Athlone
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Newry (1801–1918)
UK MPs 1880–1885
UK MPs 1885–1886
UK MPs 1886–1892
Translators of Omar Khayyám
1859 births
1936 deaths