Henry Seton Merriman (1862–1903) was the pen name of Hugh Stowell Scott, an English novelist. He was born on 9 January 1862 in Newcastle upon Tyne, a grandson of Hugh Stowell, a noted Manx clergyman. He adopted the pseudonym partly to keep his writing separate from his work in marine insurance at Lloyd's of London, a business he entered before turning to fiction full-time. He travelled extensively across Europe, Russia, North Africa, and the Middle East, and that travel strongly shaped the varied settings of his novels. A prolific and popular novelist of adventure and romance in the late Victorian era, he is often compared with contemporaries such as Anthony Hope and Stanley Weyman for his swashbuckling, historically tinted romances, and he was known for well-researched foreign settings ranging across Russia, the Balkans, France, North Africa, and the Barbary Coast. His major works include The Sowers (1896), a novel set in Russia and probably his best-known book, along with The Slave of the Lamp (1892), Flotsam: The Study of a Life (1892), With Edged Tools (1894), In Kedar's Tents (1897), Roden's Corner (1898), The Velvet Glove (1901), and Barlasch of the Guard (1903). His novels were widely read in Britain and America during his lifetime but fell out of critical fashion after his early death, and he is little read today outside specialist and public-domain reprint circles. He died on 19 November 1903 at Melton, Suffolk, aged forty-one.
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