James Glass Bertram (1824 – 3 March 1892) was a

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author. He was apprenticed to

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and became managing clerk, before joining a company of

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. He returned to Edinburgh and set up as a bookseller and newsagent. In 1855 he was appointed the editor of the ''North Briton'' and in 1872 of the ''Glasgow News'', leaving to become a freelance journalist two years later. Bertram's output included

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on the theme of

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, such as ''Flagellation and the Flagellants: A History of the Rod'' published in 1868 under the

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of "Revd William Cooper" and ''Personal Recollections of the Use of the Rod'' as "Margaret Anson", published by

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. He also wrote works on sport under the

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's novel ''

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''), notably ''Sporting anecdotes: being anecdotal annals, descriptions, tales and incidents of horse-racing, betting, card-playing, pugilism, gambling, cock-fighting, pedestrianism, fox-hunting, angling, shooting, and other sports'', collected and edited by him and published in London, 1889.

Publications

''The Border Angler''
(1858)
''The Harvest of the Sea''
(1865)
''Flagellation and the Flagellants: A History of the Rod''
(1877 edition)
''Some Memories of Books, Authors and Events''
(1893)

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