Alexander H. JappALEXANDER H. JAPP was a Scottish author, reporter, and publisher who lived from December 26, 1836, to September 29, 1905. Alexander Japp, a carpenter, and Agnes Hay had him on December 26, 1836, in Dun, Angus. He was their youngest child. His mother nd her family moved to Montrose after his father died young, and he went to Milne's school there. When Japp was seventeen, he got a job as a bookkeeper for the tailors Christie and Sons in Edinburgh. After three years, he went to London and worked for two years in the East India department of Smith, Elder and Co. When he got back to Scotland, he was sick and had to work for the hatters Grieve and Oliver in Edinburgh. In his free time in 1860 and 1860–1, he took classes at the university in metaphysics, logic, and moral philosophy. He won two prizes in rhetoric and a special certificate of distinction from Professor William Edmondstoune Aytoun, but he did not finish. In Edinburgh, Japp hung out with young artists like John Pettie and his friends. He then became a journalist and ran the Inverness Courier and the Montrose Review. After moving to London in 1864, he worked for The Daily Telegraph for a short time. Read More Read Less