Thorburn, S S
Entry updated 31 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1844-1924) Scottish commissioner in the Indian Civil Service and author whose sf novel, His Majesty's Greatest Subject (1897), begins with a Ruritanian premise – the protagonist supplants his twin brother as Viceroy of India – but soon shifts into a tale of the Near Future in which the usurper saves India from radicals of every stripe, and instrumental in turning back a Franco-Russian Invasion. The British Empire remains intact. [JC]
Septimus Smet Thorburn
born Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland: 12 August 1844
died Bracknell, Berkshire: 26 April 1924
works
- His Majesty's Greatest Subject (London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897) [hb/]
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