Horace Stebbing Roscoe St John (1832 – 29 February 1888) was an English author and journalist.
He began his journalistic career as a boy, and while ‘in a round jacket and turn-down collar’ wrote a leading article for the ‘Sunday Times.’ With his brothers Bayle and Percy Bolingbroke St. John, both of whom are separately noticed, he edited in 1854 ‘Utopia: a political, literary, and industrial journal,’ which only ran to six numbers.
For many years he was a leader-writer on political topics on the ‘Daily Telegraph,’ and frequently acted as special correspondent of the ‘Times,’ the ‘Standard,’ and other newspapers.
During 1862 and 1863 he was a contributor to the ‘Athenæum,’ to the ‘Seven Days' Journal,’ and to the ‘Leader.’ Falling into pecuniary difficulties, he was, on his own petition, made a bankrupt on 9 January 1862, and received a conditional order of discharge on 11 April 1862.
He was the author of: His wife, a daughter of Thomas Roscoe, was author of: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Boase, George Clement (1897).